Fish tooth ?

[drbush]

Hi can you help me with this ,I went to a Eocene area to the east of Riyadh and found  a  fish teeth? ,it is small , 2.5 cm long  . what could it be  ?

[ynot]

Not so sure on this one. Can You post pictures of the sides and ends?

[PaleoNoel]

It looks like a tooth from some variety of pycnodontiforme fish, here is a similar one from Fossilguy.com, a cretaceous form found in New Jersey, USA. 

Although I believe they might be misidnetified as drumfish

[Al Dente]

It is probably Eotrigonodon.

[fossilguy]

On 12/27/2018 at 3:41 PM, PaleoNoel said:

It looks like a tooth from some variety of pycnodontiforme fish, here is a similar one from Fossilguy.com, a cretaceous form found in New Jersey, USA. 

Although I believe they might be misidnetified as drumfish

 

 

Ya, that ID was incorrect on the page.  I fixed them.  The common cretaceous gill teeth are Hadrodus.   It looks like the most common Eocene gill teeth in Eurasia are Eotrigonodon, which is what Al Dente already said.

 

Later,

 

Jayson,

https://www.fossilguy.com