Samurai Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 (edited) Location Missouri Found in limestone that was blasted out by construction workers The area is Pennsylvanian on the geological map I have also found prehistoric fish teeth in the area along with Brachiopods, Crinoids, and horn corals. Edited July 13, 2020 by Samurai Spelling 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deutscheben Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 That is an interesting one- would you be able to take a closer picture of the edge of it? And what does the other side look like? It could be some kind of pavement-like crusher tooth, similar to Psammodus, but I'm not quite sure that the texture is right. Perhaps @jdp or @Archie might recognize this? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 It looks similar to fin/spines that I find in Pennsylvanian shale only way larger. Cool find! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Very interesting find! My first thought was some sort of Psammodontid as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 (edited) 13 hours ago, deutscheben said: That is an interesting one- would you be able to take a closer picture of the edge of it? And what does the other side look like? It could be some kind of pavement-like crusher tooth, similar to Psammodus, but I'm not quite sure that the texture is right. Perhaps @jdp or @Archie might recognize this? thanks for the response! I honestly thought it was some sort of invertebrate or coral at first! I took some pictures of the other side, sorry I originally did not post them as I thought the side was not of importance due to it being from a Concretion/Nodulethis one is the right half of the concretion turned over. As of the moment I am not able to get the most clear pictures due to my phones incapability to take good pictures at night!, but here are more of them I zoomed in as far as it could on the right sided half Delicate side of the fossilized material I was not sure of which side u wanted me to take the close up picture of so I did both, Side with fossilized material placed back inside Once again I am very sorry for the poor quality of the images, the lighting in my house is sub par to natural daylight, I will post more clearer pictures in daylight! also if u need anymore pictures please tell me what you need! Edited July 16, 2020 by Samurai Spelling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdp Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Looks like a chunk of calcified cartilage to me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 Added a few photos in daylight Hopefully better quality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Posted July 19, 2020 Author Share Posted July 19, 2020 (edited) On 7/16/2020 at 12:32 PM, jdp said: Looks like a chunk of calcified cartilage to me. I think you are correct! Is it possible to determine which species or What body part this cartilage is from? My guess would be from the order Eugeneodontida considering I found a few teeth from these specimen in the area Edited July 19, 2020 by Samurai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdp Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 There's not enough information here to speculate, honestly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Posted July 19, 2020 Author Share Posted July 19, 2020 5 minutes ago, jdp said: There's not enough information here to speculate, honestly. Alright, thank you for responding anyways! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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