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How to tell apart mosasaur and Enchodus teeth? This fragment is 2 mm in length. It has longitudinal striations (not visible on photo) and at least one cutting edge (there might be a second on the other side, but some surface is missing there, and a bit of sediment is adhering), the cross section seems to be oval-to-irregular (but see comment above). The lower part is witish, the upper - redish. Sorry for the poor quality picture.

Lower Campanian, marine, southern Poland.

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Pictures of different views would be helpful.

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Better pictures are needed and like Darktooth mentioned, from different angles. Are they striations on it?

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It took me a while but I'm bringing more photos of the specimen. I'm starting to think it's rather a bone or maybe a plesiosaur tooth... Awaiting your opinions :-)

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Definitely thinking Enchodus. Cross-section, elongated shape, and bone-like interior all point to Enchodus.

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