Extraordinary Common Teeth

[isurus90064]

This is to consolidate posts as well as to update the old pic which wasn't very good.

I was going through some older STH material and ran into this matrix piece. Everything on this piece is exactly where it was when it was found. I did have to add a little glue to where the teeth were sitting on the matrix for reinforcement. This was found among a number of pieces like this in March 2003 when the "West Quarry" on Bob Ernst' property was first opened.

There's more fossil here than there is matrix. Made it fairly easy to prep.

 

"Sharktooth Hill"

~15.5 Ma

Middle Miocene

Roundmountain Silt

Bakersfield

Kern County, CA

 

Roundmountain Silt ages:

~15.5-16.3 Ma - Roundmountain Silt strontium-isotope ages (Olson, 1988)

~14.0-15.5 Ma - Roundmountain Silt Luisian benthic foraminiferal fauna (Barron and Isaacs, 2001; Prothero, 2001)

~15.0-16.0 Ma - Roundmountain Silt Denticulopsis lauta A zone diatoms (Barron, 1981; Barron, in Bartow and McDougall, 1984)

~14.5-16.1 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the Roundmountain Silt (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~15.2-16.0 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the middle section of the Roundmountain Silt that includes the bonebed (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~15.5 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the bonebed itself (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~14.5-16.1 Ma - best correlation for the Roundmountain Silt (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

 

 

[eddie]

Wow, that matrix piece is insane. Must have been pretty amazing to collect on that property!

Here are a couple more "red site" teeth - a couple Hemi's and a couple tigers...

[Troodon]

Some beautiful Red teeth, hard to follow but will give it a shot with this one.

An interesting pathology, big and beautiful Meg from Ica, Peru its 5 3/4"

[Troodon]

A 2 /12" C. aruriculatus with Pyrite from the Steinhatchee River, Taylor Co, Florida

[isurus90064]

Eddie, fantastic teeth!! "Red site" teeth never get old. Thank you for posting. Seems that, based on some of the old postings as well, you have a substantial "red site" collection. This stuff is exceedingly hard to come by.

[isurus90064]

Troodon, truly exquisite examples!!! Wow, on the Peruvian, the cusp is not a cusp, the pathology makes it look like a separate tooth, and then there is the quality! And of course the pyrite covered tooth is unmistakenly beautiful, quite literally a jewel of a fossil. Thanks for showing these.

Edited September 8, 2015 by isurus90064

[eddie]

Some beautiful Red teeth, hard to follow but will give it a shot with this one.

An interesting pathology, big and beautiful Meg from Ica, Peru its 5 3/4"

Peru4a.jpgPeru4.jpg

Very nice! I don't have any Peruvian megs now, so I enjoy seeing pics of them.

[Troodon]

Common is the topic and common it is:

A pair of Otodus obliquus, largest at 2"

Locality:

Paleocene

Aruma Formation

Ihssaa, Sauda Arabia

C. auriculatus at 2 1/2"

Locality:

Eocene

Qsar-el-Sagha Formation

Birket-el-Qurum, Egypt

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[Troodon]

Not sure how many of our novice members have seen these but thought I would post them since it interesting.

Palaeocarcharodon orientalis is a very common tooth out of the Paleocene of Morocco. The tooth is noted for a sharply pointed crown with very Coarse serrations

Here is one with what I call Transitional Serrations

And here is one with NO serrations

I checked closely and no augmentation has been done. I have several of each variety.

[kkborch]

Troodon, very nice teeth! I love the orientalis transitional set.

[kkborch]

Here's my only West Coast US Great White.

Orcutt, California

2.73"

[kkborch]

Here are a couple C. hubelli from Peru.

2.41" and 1.65"

[kkborch]

Another Peruvian in my collection. 1.80"

[isurus90064]

You leave for a few hours and then this happens ..

Some really outstanding fossils here:

Troodon, fantastic localities!! and such a beautiful example of the transition. I actually like yours much better than mine: page 29 post # 576.

kkborch, fantabulous peruvians!! if that is your only west coast GW, you did good, really good!! One of the nicest, if not the nicest Orcutt Hill tooth I've seen (and I've actually seen quite a few of them).

Thank you gentlemen, thank you kindly!!

[eddie]

Another Peruvian in my collection. 1.80"

Hey, that one looks very familiar.

[kkborch]

Hey, that one looks very familiar.

I was trying to get a hold of that one for quite a while. Finally got it but it didn't come cheap!

[kkborch]

My last Great White post. Think I'll let this one marinate here before posting more teeth.

This is a GW found in the Summerville area of South Carolina. 2.80"

[isurus90064]

Hey kkborch, there's nothing like a well marinated tooth.

Very very nice, great colors!! I am travelling for work so no access to teeth or photo equipment. I will do an update when I get back and post a bunch of teeth.

[eddie]

I was trying to get a hold of that one for quite a while. Finally got it but it didn't come cheap!

Used to be in my collection. I miss it!

[Troodon]

Awesome colors for a SC, Great White. One of the nicest Ive seen from that locality

[Fossil shop]

Here is a Very Very Rare Rooted Albertosaur tooth! This was an incredible find I dug up this spring!

Measures in at a little over 3.75 inches long! Thanks for looking.

Any questions let me know, and let me know what you think.

[isurus90064]

Quick posting before another work trip:

 

~3.02" - 7.67cm

 

Carcharodon carcharias

Morgan River

Hawthorne Formation

Beaufort County, SC

 

[isurus90064]

Carcharodon carcharias

Morgan River

Hawthorne Formation

Beaufort County, SC

 

[isurus90064]

Carcharodon carcharias

Morgan River

Hawthorne Formation

Beaufort County, SC

 

[isurus90064]

Cosmopolitodus hastalis

"West Vaco site"

Jedburg

Dorchester County, SC