Bgoods55 Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 I'd help please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powelli1 Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Hi Sorry but can you get a little better photos of the teeth and wear you found them that would help out a lot. George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bgoods55 Posted February 7, 2014 Author Share Posted February 7, 2014 Click on the individual pic it enlarges it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bgoods55 Posted February 7, 2014 Author Share Posted February 7, 2014 Kemp, tx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Even after enlarging the pictures they are very blurry. Also, what George was saying is it would help to ID if we had info on where they were found. Not the exact location, just a general location and the formation if known. Odontaspis ferox is the extant species and is known from the late Miocene/Pliocene. 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...
sixgill pete Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Kemp, tx Then these teeth are most likely ?Cretaceous. So could not be O. ferox. Better more in focus pictures would really be helpful to get a better ID. There are several Odontaspids from the Texas Cretaceous. 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...
Bgoods55 Posted February 7, 2014 Author Share Posted February 7, 2014 That's my problem I cant get a definitive formation of where I found them. Surely you can get an accurate idea of which formations are exposed in kemp, tx with the right geologic map. The only decent one I can find is specific to just the dallas/ft. worth area. Based on research I've done, I feel strongly they are Miocene as you mentioned. I'm not experienced enough to look at a rock and tell you its time period so what resources can I use to determine this??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 That area is Cretaceous; you have to go east a ways to find the Eocene. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 LINK-Navarro Group LINK-Taylor Group "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bgoods55 Posted February 7, 2014 Author Share Posted February 7, 2014 I believe you're right Auspex. I just received a link for a geologic atlas map of the area from another fellow, it puts these teeth in Kemp Clay which apparently is very late cretaceous. However it borders the midway formation as well, some sharks had to have survived the extinction of dinosaurs right? lamniforms for example? I'm pretty sure these teeth are not related to them, but maybe some sort of tiger shark, did they survive as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertman Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 The tooth on the left of the first image, the one with the double cusps on each side, might be an example of Serratolamna serata. If it is, it is a Cretaceous tooth, probably from the Kemp Clay member of the Navarro Group, extreme upper part of the Cretaceous. I am having a really hard time seeing the others in the images. If you found it in Paleocene sediments (the discussion we were having on your nautiloid thread) it is possible that the exposures have either been mixed up at the locality or the teeth themselves were "reworked" in the Paleocene time after being deposited in the Cretaceous time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bgoods55 Posted February 10, 2014 Author Share Posted February 10, 2014 Yea that makes sense vertman, didn't think about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 No Miocene marine in Texas. But you have a delightful problem on your hands. Figuring out a productive site is a blast. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bgoods55 Posted February 10, 2014 Author Share Posted February 10, 2014 Haha! Yea extra fun dan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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