Extraordinary Common Teeth

[sixgill pete]

On 1/3/2022 at 3:07 AM, siteseer said:

Here's a Carcharocles tooth from the Oligocene of Say-Utias, Mangyshlak, Kazakhstan.  I've seen alternate spellings of the locality, Say-Utias (e.g. Sai-Utjas) but none of them come up in a search so I assume it's a small town or spot just locally known.  This tooth is just over 2 1/8 inches (56mm) along the mesial slant.  It was sent to me by a friend because he knew I liked oddball teeth.  Check out the serrations of the lateral cusplets.  They're spikier than normally seen especially for an Oligocene tooth.  Weird serrations are more often seen in Eocene teeth.  It made me think this tooth might be older but the locality is known for Oligocene teeth and not those typical of the Eocene.

 

Carcharocles teeth from the Oligocene of Kazakhstan are at least uncommon.  I show it here because it's an oddball of a species that is common elsewhere.  They have been identified as C. angustidens or C. turgidus or turgidus is added as a subspecies of angustidens.  This tooth seems rather thick at the lingual protuberance for a C. angustidens tooth of its size but maybe the site is early Oligocene in age.

 

Jess, that tooth is gorgeous!

[RuMert]

On 1/3/2022 at 11:07 AM, siteseer said:

I've seen alternate spellings of the locality, Say-Utias (e.g. Sai-Utjas) but none of them come up in a search so I assume it's a small town or spot just locally known.

It's here 

[siteseer]

4 hours ago, RuMert said:

It's here 

 

Thank you!

[siteseer]

I talked to Isurus90064 today.  Here's a funky Hemipristis found by a mutual friend.  It's from Venice Beach, Florida (probably late Miocene-Pliocene) and about 1 3/8 inches (35mm).  My brother took a great photo of it with the tooth marks on it clearly showing.  I think it was losing the tooth and then it bit it before it sank to the seafloor.  

[siteseer]

This tooth is from the early late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Woodbine Formation, Amon Carter Field, Tarrant County, Texas.  It was collected in the 1960's.  It measures 3/8 of an inch (9mm) so it was tough to shoot with an iPhone.  I think it's from a juvenile Leptostyrax or possibly a symphyseal position.

[Notidanodon]

@siteseer here are some recently got from mangyshlack, but lutetian I believe, though one of them does look more like a soklovi which would indicate Oligocene  

[siteseer]

Wow, great teeth, Will.  I heard many of the Mangyshlak area sites were heavily collected in the 90's and those hunters found a ton of stuff but there were several years when very little was found after that.  

[Thomas.Dodson]

It doesn't get much more common than Scapanorhynchus texanus but I've taken a liking to this tooth from the Blufftown Formation in Georgia. I brought a friend out fossil hunting for the first time and gave him all the teeth I found except for this one which I had to keep; it's just too perfect. The pictures don't do the cutting edge justice.

 

4 cm.

 

[siteseer]

Great specimen.  Nice color.  

[DardS8Br]

I’ve got this 5.55in rooted Spinosaur tooth from the Kem Kem Beds. Thanks @Praefectus for confirming it’s real

[Woopaul5]

A tooth that has eluded my collection till recently.

 

Paraisurus macrorhiza

Cretaceous (Albian) 

Kursk region, Russia

[Woopaul5]

I really dislike that they went away from Carcharocles lineage to Otodus but changes are changes…

 

Otodus megalodon

Mid Miocene

Round Mountain Silt Member 

Temblor Fm

Bakersfield, CA

4 3/4”

Edited February 6, 2022 by Woopaul5
Typos

[Woopaul5]

Paratodus benedeni

Mid miocene

Round Mountain Silt Member

Temblor Fm/Jewett Sand Fm (center Beni)

Bakersfield, CA 

 

[Woopaul5]

Otodus megalodon 

Pliocene

Yorktown fm

Aurora, NC

4.79”

 

shes thiccc 

[Requiem99]

So glad you got that one Paul. The enamel is killer.

-Todd

[Woopaul5]

12 hours ago, Requiem99 said:

So glad you got that one Paul. The enamel is killer.

-Todd

I got one that’s 5.5” from Lee creek too that I haven’t seen yet. I’m overseas for the next 6 mos and in FB jail till march… I’ll go back to the database with some treats soon

[Woopaul5]

Otodus megalodon

Eastover fm

Meherrin River, NC 

5.08”

Edited February 13, 2022 by Woopaul5

[Requiem99]

12 minutes ago, Woopaul5 said:

I got one that’s 5.5” from Lee creek too that I haven’t seen yet. I’m overseas for the next 6 mos and in FB jail till march… I’ll go back to the database with some treats soon

 Hope you are a changed man once you are out of the FB joint.

[Requiem99]

I've been lurking here since 2018, and haven't posted so I figure I should start.

Carcharodon carcharias
2.8"
Atacama Desert, Chile
Bahia Inglesa Formation
Upper Miocene to Lower Pliocene Epoch

 

[Requiem99]

Otodus megalodon
4.08"

Lee Creek Mine

Aurora, NC

Yorktown Formation

Pliocene Epoch

 

Edited February 13, 2022 by Requiem99

[Woopaul5]

Carcharodon carcharias

Pliocene

Pisco Fm

Ica Desert, Peru

2.49”

Edited February 13, 2022 by Woopaul5

[Woopaul5]

Otodus megalodon

Mid Miocene

Round mountain silt member

Temblor Fm

Bakersfield, CA

4.74”

 

Gonna try to keep posting in here to keep this thread going. Currently away from my collection for awhile but have some more photos to share 

 

[siteseer]

On 2/6/2022 at 4:46 AM, Woopaul5 said:

A tooth that has eluded my collection till recently.

 

Paraisurus macrorhiza

Cretaceous (Albian) 

Kursk region, Russia

 

 

Nice one, Woopaul.  It's always been tough to get one with some of the root lobes.  That's a killer.

 

  

[siteseer]

On 2/6/2022 at 5:19 AM, Woopaul5 said:

Paratodus benedeni

Mid miocene

Round Mountain Silt Member

Temblor Fm/Jewett Sand Fm (center Beni)

Bakersfield, CA 

 

 

 

If that one in the middle is from the Jewett Sand, it's older than Sharktooth Hill.  The Jewett is early Miocene (maybe latest Oligocene).  Also, the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed is a layer within the Round Mountain Silt.

 

[siteseer]

On 2/12/2022 at 11:07 PM, Woopaul5 said:

Carcharodon carcharias

Pliocene

Pisco Fm

Ica Desert, Peru

2.49”

 

 

Beautiful color!