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Juvenile Tylosaur rostrum

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I found this really cool piece this weekend at the North sulphur river. I believe it's juvenile Tylosaur 

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I saw that Mike Everhart identified it for you.  A juvenile Tylosaur premaxilla seems very reasonable.  The slightly longer rostrum can be seen relative to the teeth (a characteristic of Tylosaurs).

 

Congratulations on a very rare find!

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That is very cool. I would love to walk up on that myself. Nice find!

“Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think” -Werner Heisenberg 

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fantastic, congrets for this amazing find! Very rare...

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With a premaxilla like that, hitting forward past the initial row of teeth, an identification as juvenile tylosaur seems very reasonable. Awesome find! :default_clap2:

 

@Praefectus, have you seen this?

'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett

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