Unidentified Dinosaur tooth.

[Joe Jordan]

I found this tooth recently at Pett Level in Hastings.

I've found loads of teeth including some rare ones.. but nothing like this ..at first I thought maybe ankylosaur or something similar... 

What's your thoughts ?

I've added pictures next to an ankylosaur tooth

 

 

 

[Anomotodon]

Could be a heterodontosaurid - here is a slightly older (Berriasian) Echinodon dentary

 

[FB003]

Hastings is where?

[Fossildude19]

1 minute ago, FB003 said:

Hastings is where?

 

 

UK.

 

LINK

[FB003]

My first thought after Tim pointed out location was some sort of positional small Iguanodontid tooth but as pointed out earlier heterodontosaurid looks to be similar too and all the Iguanodontid teeth I've seen have more of a curve to them.  It does not resemble any ankylosaurid teeth I've seen though unless its just really worn down where the "glove" typically is.

[FF7_Yuffie]

Could be a Hypsilophodon? I think they have positional teeth with that strong central ridge. I can't check online right now myself to compare.

 

 

That is a lovely tooth though, and very rare. I have maybe 20 or so ornithopod/iguanodon teeth from there and none like that.

Edited April 12 by FF7_Yuffie

[Joe Jordan]

I have a Hypsilophodon tooth from there looks totally different 

[Joe Jordan]

7 hours ago, Anomotodon said:

Could be a heterodontosaurid - here is a slightly older (Berriasian) Echinodon dentary

 

That does look very similar.. and if I'm not mistaken it was early Cretaceous to...

[gms]

Very interesting. I would lean towards some kind of iguanodontid dentary tooth due to its overall shape