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Hello all! I'm hoping to get a bit more information on this "tooth" I found in the surf at Panama City Beach, Florida, Bay County. I was literally telling my wife that I really would like to find a shark's tooth on the beach and then found this about 5 minutes later. It doesn't look like any of the shark's teeth I have ever seen elsewhere and doesn't seem to have any edge serations. I'm just hoping to get some idea as to: 1. Is this an older or fossilized tooth? 2. What shark or other animal is it likely from? Not well visualized from the photos (best seen on pic #4 and #6), but this tooth has at least two foramina that extend longitudinally from the top down to the lateral protrusions near the point or apex. You can see their origins along the upper mounting edge. If it really is a tooth, I'm curious as to what the purpose of the foramina would be? Perhaps sensory nerve canals of some sort? Venom injection ports?? Interesting structure either way... I'm a total novice who just happened to find this on the beach a few days ago. So, any information anyone can provide is definitely welcome! I hope the photos are satisfactory, but please let me know if I need to redo anything. This is the best resolution I can do with my phone. Thank you!! MrPisky
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I found this shark tooth in a store. I believe it to be a Mako? My only photo. I have been here a lot, and it has been here the whole time.
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Hi, I found these teeth a while back and just never could find a solid match, does anyone know the species? They were found on the Kaw river in Kansas. Thank you!
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Hello all! I was wondering if anyone could help me identify some shark teeth. I was gifted most of these teeth from the late @caldigger. A lot of them came from Shark Tooth Hills and a few I believe were misc teeth he had kicking around. I had labels for them at some point but a recent move found the note associated with them missing. The first 9 photos are shark teeth from Doren (@caldigger). The teeth in the last 3 photos I purchased when I worked at a local rock and gem shop. I’m pretty sure they’re plain ol’ otodus teeth. I would greatly appreciate if anyone could give me some insignt into what they could be so that I could label them appropriately All the best! -V
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Hey, here is another Albian shark tooth. This time from the Del Rio Formation, Behind Spillway, Lake Waco, Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA. Is it a Cretalamna tooth? If yes, any idea which species it could be? Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
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Hi all! Here are two shark teeth from Kursk Oblast, Russia. I think they are Albian-Cenomanian in age. Am I correct that the left one is Dwardius sp.? If yes, any idea what species? The right tooth has extra cusplets. Any idea what it could be? I looked at the paper of Solonin, et al. (2015), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8052775, but I can't find a good match. Thank you very much for your help!
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Hi all! The weather out here on the East Coast of the U.S. has finally started to warm up (sorta…) and for my husband and I (+ the occasional friends) that means a day trip out to Big Brook Preserve for a day of sifting and picnicking. The most major change we noticed was the new erosion. We had a stormy winter out here, with a lot of rainfall, winds, and flooding. There’s newly exposed strata throughout the brook, but about 5 minutes into the main trailhead there’s been a massive mudslide along the far bank. Several trees have fallen across the brook and those that were able to keep their grip on the bank have exposed roots. The bank will resettle and stabilize back up soon enough, but in the meantime please exercise caution when exploring/hunting in this area, especially during storms or high winds. Of course, with these changes comes newly exposed fossils along the creek bed ripe for the sifting! Here’s a collection of what my group and I found out on our first trip of the season. An overview We didn’t find as many teeth as we expected to with all the new collapsed strata and no particularly large ones - but we did find some with a beautiful pale coloring, including the stunning white one in the center there! I was able to find some of my first trace fossils! Two lovely pebbles, with possibly some sort of belemnite/shellfish/burrow imprints on the left side there, and some amazing shell imprints on the one on the right (both include imprints on both sides of the stones). And speaking of shells - we have some lovely marine fossils! The 4 scallops(?) in the foreground are fully closed, with both top and bottom shells intact - a first for us at Big Brook! And these guys range from tiny to itty-bitty. In the newly exposed strata within the major mudslide area there seemed to be a layer close to shoreline containing a MASSIVE amount of shells, and I’m assuming these baby scallops came from that layer. My hunch says it’s a layer from a period of local/mass extinction, but if anyone knows more about what that layer could be please let me know! Top image includes the finds that I think could be either fossilized wood or bone….then again they could just be your everyday rock! I’ll be posting in the Fossil ID topic soon with clearer images, so any help would be appreciated! Bottom image includes our first two vertebrae! The one on the right is about the size of a dime and so the one on the left is absolutely minuscule! I’m just amazed we were able to spot it in our sifters. And these…are our unknowns. Coral? Concretions? Fossilized bone? Or maybe just a rock? (But I am crossing my fingers for pure Gold on that one at that top…) And finally, here’s a bonus image of some of the beautiful stones we picked up along the way!
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I found this tooth in some Lee Creek micro matrix from Aurora, North Carolina. It measures 6mm. After doing some research, I believe it is a Carcharoides catticus tooth. Can anyone confirm?
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Is this a Horn Shark heterodontus anterior tooth? The tooth has the main cusp and two lateral cusplets with circular base. Small in size – 2mm across. Found in the Upper Eocene – Ocala Limestone Formation – location in Sumter County, Florida. Thank you.
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Hey, been a while, so i decided to start a new topic for the new year. Headed out on Thursday 25/01 to the river shores in Antwerp again. First hunt of the year since i've worked non-stop so far and a contractor is rebuilding our house.. It was great being out again so i was already pleased on beforehand, finding some nice teeth made it even better 😁 here's some in situ pics.. Rolled C. hastalis C. hastalis in excellent shape my first Parotodus benedeni ever, not in great shape but an awesome find anyway 😀 Finally a complete 6cm C. hastalis VID20240125131132.mp4 And some random mammal teeth Had a great first hunt of the year, and I already feel like going back! oh yeah, here's the whole lot cleaned up.. Surprised about how many different species i got covered this time 😄 Grtz, Dries
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Hello all. I have this one shark tooth from the London clay and I’m really stuck on its identity. I’ve already ruled out Striatolamia due to the lack of lingual folding and shape of the cusplets. The only two options I have are Hypotodus verticalis and Glueckmanotodus heinzelini, but it has features of both and also has features that both do not present. It’s from the London Clay formation at Walton-on-the-Naze, UK. The age is early Eocene (Ypresian). Any help would be appreciated.
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This is probably just a rock but it’s shaped a bit like a shark tooth. Found on a beach in Krabi Thailand. Thoughts? IMG_0463.mov
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Fossil identification help please! Peace River Formation Venice, FL area
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Hello fellow paleontology buffs! I have recently returned from a trip to the Venice area where I did some surface/ beach sifting for fossils. I need to get out and dive there next time. I would love to have some help identifying fossils that are tripping me up. I recognize that there are a LOT of them. Sorry!!! I organized them on to a PDF because there were a lot to look at, but please let me know if it does not open up and I will upload them as images instead. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.- 44 replies
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I found this tooth at highcliffe in the uk, so it is eocene in age. I have no idea what it is from so I would love some help. Thank you
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What would the general ID of this tooth?. and how much would it cost?
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Hello everyone,how are you? I'm new here and this is my firt post. I found this tooth lately and I am wondering what species could it be and how much would it cost. Thanks in advance. -
From the album: Neutache Shoreline
My smallest shark tooth to date. E Kansas. 4/5/24 #VM12© CC BY-NC
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While walking the beach my wife found this oddly shaped rock. She was looking for “ heart shaped” rocks but after looking at it a bit it seemed like it has a margin where the tooth enamel might have been. That tooth face also has what seems like microscopic tubulas which might have once been the dentin. It’s certainly not pristine as it does have a defined point. It’s about 3-3.5 inches at the longest points. It could just be a rock but I was curious your opinion
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Found a couple different teeth or possibly just shells today. We were at Fort Pickens Pensacola Beach area. Thanks in advance.
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Potomac trip from back in Mid March. First Otodus!
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I’ve been wanting to post this trip on here for a while, so today is the day! Pretty awesome one, showed up to the beach at the scheduled low tide only to see turbulent water up to the top of the beach due to incoming weather patterns. Gave it a chance anyway and very happy I did! Found my first Otodus (along with a busted blade of one), my hunting partner found the smaller one on the right in the second picture on the same day. Also found my first complete ray dental plate. Great day for firsts! -
I found this rock on my property in Cherokee Co. (northeastern Oklahoma) and am curious to find out what is is. It seems heavy for it's size.
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Teeth, Ammonites, and Crabs: A Day in the Upper Britton of North Texas
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On Wednesday, October 12th, I took another trip to a nearby favorite spot of mine that I found a few years ago which exposes the Sciponoceras gracile Zone, Camp Wisdom Member, Upper Britton Formation of the Eagle Ford Group here in Texas (Late Cenomanian-Early Turonian, 92-95mya), and had probably my best hunt from this site, including several different ammonites, a few shark teeth, my first Enchodus, and 26 Ferroranina dichrous crabs! First find was this very nice Yezoites delicatulus (Scaphitidae) ammonite A very worn Ptychodus sp. (Ptychodontidae) shark tooth: Sciponoceras gracile (Baculitidae) ammonite, namesake of the zone: Dead modern Procambarus steigmani — this crayfish is endemic to northeast/north central Texas: Legs of a Linuparus sp. likely L. grimmeri (Palinuridae) spiny lobster: Metoicoceras geslinianum (Acanthoceratidae) ammonite: Pair of Inoceramus capulus (Inoceramidae) bivalves: Some of the 26 total Ferroranina dichrous (Palaeocorystidae) crabs found during the day: Selenite crystals: Opuntia macrorhiza (Cactaceae), as a botanist this genus is one of my focus groups: Cameleolopha bellaplicata subsp. bellaplicata (Ostreidae) oyster occurring here as overwash from the younger Turonian Arcadia Park Formation (89-91mya) which is otherwise long since eroded away in this area: Next into some things I decided to take nice camera photos of (and consequently some of the best finds of the day) A nice tiny Cretalamna appendiculata s.l. (Otodontidae) shark tooth: My first Enchodus (Enchodontidae) fish tooth, I’m not sure which species are known from the Britton: cf. Margarites sp. (Margaritidae) gastropod, the first of this family I’ve seen in the Britton: A very beautiful Ptychodus anonymus (Ptychodontidae) shark tooth, found while crawling on the ground beneath a slope: Worthoceras vermiculus (Scaphitidae) ammonite, the nicest one I’ve collected: Natica sp. (Naticidae) gastropod, this species is extremely common in much of the Britton: Ferroranina dichrous (Palaeocorystidae) crab: My first Nannometoicoceras acceleratum (Acanthoceratidae) ammonite, fittingly tiny: Another Inoceramus capulus (Inoceramidae) bivalve: Hesperotettix speciosus (Acrididae) grasshopper: Really interesting preservation on this Ferroranina dichrous (Palaeocorystidae) crab that I had never seen before, these are almost always found in orange to dark red concretions: The total Ferroranina dichrous haul: The Nannometoicoceras acceleratum after some cleanup showing the distinctive tiny, conical umbilicus and tubercle arrangement:- 8 replies
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