Big Brook Mosasaurus Tooth

[Snaggletooth19]

I just returned from a few days up in NJ where I had time to visit Big Brook (and Ramanessin for a little bit too). I went for a couple hours last Wednesday when I first arrived, then picked up where I left off Thursday morning.

 

It was pretty chilly. About 28 degrees when I first woke up at 7. So I did some other work at the Colt's Neck Inn Hotel (highly recommend) until about 11. Over that time it warmed up almost 10 degrees. 

 

But I headed out. The positive to the cold weather was that I was the only one out there. It was also sunny despite the cold, and was otherwise a great day to go out.

 

About 2pm and nearly to the Boundary Rd bridge, sifting through pile after pile of gravel, this beauty rolled across my sifting pan and I could hardly believe it. After a good 5 years and several trips, I finally found my first mosasaurus tooth! It's a bit beaten up and chipped, but I couldn't have been happier. Totally worth my beet red hands. This was my big trip maker and will have an honored place in my special fossil cabinet.

[patelinho7]

Very nice, thanks for sharing! Glad you are making the best out of this spring. I must point out, however, that the tooth is a mosasaur tooth, not necessarily a Mosasaurus genus tooth. Unless, of course, you are certain that it is of that genus, in that case don't mind me!

[Praefectus]

Nice find. Looks like a prognathodontin anterior crown. Congratulations!

[Doctor Mud]

Nice find! We can be spoilt by seeing the multitude of Mosasaur teeth coming from other places in world - but in some places they are a rare treat.