SCfossilhunter Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 Found out at a land site in Summerville SC so not sure what layer it came from, but was found among Megs and angustidens and a few others. Was wondering if anyone had a better guess at what species of whale this came from, my Google researching didn't really pull up anything that looked terribly close. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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caldigger Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 Looks like a Basilosaur type tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 Squalodon? Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 Is not Summerville Oligocene? If so possibly Eosqualodon sp. @Boesse The size is right. If this is Eosqualodon I would highly recommend donating this tooth to the Mace Brown Museum in Charleston. It is a relatively unknown species. Only found (so far) in a few spots in S.C. and the Belgrade Quarry in North Carolina. All known Eosqualodon teeth from NC, including mine have been donated. 5 Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCfossilhunter Posted February 8, 2019 Author Share Posted February 8, 2019 Thanks @sixgill pete, I was headed down there anyways tomorrow so I'll ask someone about it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrR Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 Well, you learn something new every day. I just wonder what knowledge I lost in order to make room for this. I guess squalodon teeth are something I can look out for when I go to STH when the wet season abates here in California? Unless, of course, the accessible layers there aren't quite old enough. It seems that 15 mya should put this in the realm of the possible. While investigating, I found a very nice write-up on these creatures. Squalodon, et.. al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 1 hour ago, MrR said: Well, you learn something new every day. I just wonder what knowledge I lost in order to make room for this. I guess squalodon teeth are something I can look out for when I go to STH when the wet season abates here in California? Unless, of course, the accessible layers there aren't quite old enough. It seems that 15 mya should put this in the realm of the possible. While investigating, I found a very nice write-up on these creatures. Squalodon, et.. al. Squalodon is a whale from the Miocene and i do not believe is known from shark tooth hill. It is a relatively well known fossil. Teeth are not uncommon. His tooth i believe is Eosqualodon. It is from the Oligocene. It is an earlier species and is relatively unknown. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsonwheels Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 1 hour ago, MrR said: Well, you learn something new every day. I just wonder what knowledge I lost in order to make room for this. I guess squalodon teeth are something I can look out for when I go to STH when the wet season abates here in California? Unless, of course, the accessible layers there aren't quite old enough. It seems that 15 mya should put this in the realm of the possible. While investigating, I found a very nice write-up on these creatures. Squalodon, et.. al. I do not believe that any Squalodon are found in STH. The teeth you see listed for sale as Prosqualdon are an unidentified species of Odontoceti but are not prosqualodon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 Yeah, no squalidon in the STH deposits. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 21 hours ago, MrR said: Well, you learn something new every day. I just wonder what knowledge I lost in order to make room for this. Yup. Just doesn't seem fair does it? The tooth that started this topic is drool-worthy awesome. Bobby @Boesse is a busy guy and when he resurfaces on the forum I can't wait to hear his input on this tooth. Pretty cool if it is from an earlier less well known species. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Hey all! Sorry for disappearing for a while; this semester has been crazy so far. So there are at least two large dolphins that this tooth could belong to: Eosqualodon as mentioned by @sixgill pete, but also a large species of Agorophius. Squalodon is not known from the Oligocene of SC, and precious few Miocene exposures exist. EDIT: ALSO, Squalodon is NOT found at Sharktooth Hill. And Prosqualodon has NEVER been reported from the northern hemisphere - only from Patagonia and Australia. A platanistid-like allodelphinid dolphin Zarhinocetus errabundus is known from STH, formerly classified as "Squalodon" errabundus by Kellogg (1931) based on the strange anatomy of the periotic, but actually had homodont cone-shaped teeth like most modern dolphins. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 7 minutes ago, Boesse said: Prosqualodon has NEVER been reported from the southern hemisphere - only from Patagonia and Australia. I thought that Patagonia and Australia are in the southern hemisphere. Did You mean northern hemisphere? Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 yes I did! edited. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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