Did I find a Stelladens tooth from New Jersey on the internet ?

[Brevicollis]

While I was searching for Stelladens teeth that were offered as pathological as they could have been put on the internet before this species was described (since 6 months, multiple hours a day !!!), I stumbled across this "pathological" mosasaur tooth, from New Jersey. It has four, fully serrated carinae, reaching all the way to the base.

Sadly this one is not for sale on the internet, so buying it wont be an option for me.

 

Did I just find the first evidence of Stelladens in living in america on the internet ?

I dont know if there are any Stelladens teeth known from the US, but I think that this tooth could be scientifficly important. 

 

@pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon, @Praefectus, @jnoun11

Edited September 1 by Brevicollis

[val horn]

It does look similar 

[val horn]

It might be worth while contacting the owner  what else they have found. Writing up a short report 

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

Seeing as the prognathodontine nature of the tooth and that it has two auxiliary carinae with a deep V-shaped gully running in between them, with the auxiliary carinae running the full apicobasal height of the tooth, I'd say this is, indeed, morphologically very similar to what's been described as Stelladens mysteriosus from Morocco. Meaning it's either a pathology encountered in mosasaurs across the world, as some would argue, or that species of mosasaur were indeed a lot more globally dispersed than current mosasaur research would allow for (there's always a lot to do about applying taxonomic names from one side of the Atlantic to remains found on the other side of it).

 

Either way, an excellent observation!