klattrocks Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 I found a tooth in Bladen County, NC at a site on the Cape Fear River near Elizabethtown. The site is Upper Cretaceous, and is Upper Campanian in age. It's in the Black Creek Group. I know that the tooth isn't in the best of shape, but hopefully is identifiable. All the Mosasaur teeth I had collected there before are a black color. I noticed this tooth is also curved from side to side. I don't know if it's a Plesiosaur or Mosasaur tooth. Both have been found at this site, but the Plesiosaur is far less common. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hipockets Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Can we see and end view of the cavity ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hipockets Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 I guess croc is a possibility also ? They find some nice ones there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Al? I believe it is croc like @Hipockets alluded to. 1 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...
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klattrocks Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 I thought crocodile was round in cross section. This is oval. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hipockets Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 If thats a round cavity, I agree with six. I hope you got into some more things to post ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hipockets Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Yeah, I dont see a cavity at all, looks like a break. If you say its an oval then its an oval. You can see it better than anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klattrocks Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 Yes I have to been Phoebus Landing several times I have a fair amount of specimens from there. I have a hadrosaur metatarsal which has been identified by Gene Hartstein and others. I have been collecting heavily in the last 20 years and the buckets and baggies haven't been gone through since I found the material! I'm organizing and high grading so there will be lots of posts. Well it's time to do it and see what I got. What else is there to do that's fun for a fossil hunter in isolation? Lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 I am rather confident it is not plesiosaur. The pic os the "base" does look like a break in the photo to me. But, it gives the tooth more of a mosasaur look. 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...
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