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Found on the beach in Aust, UK 

The finds there from Triassic period 

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That's an ichthyosaur tooth, and a nice one, too, from that location! You can recognise it as such for the folds on the root, which are a uniquely ichthyosaurian characteristic. Species is more difficult, though I suspect a leptonectid.

 

Excellent find! :envy:

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'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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