missingdigits Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 First of all Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the U.S.! I finally found my first shark tooth! This came from the blue hills shale, carlile formation, upper Cretaceous(Kansas ). I've been searching Oceans of Kansas and the closest I have found so far is scapanorhynchus r. rhaphiodon, but I really have no idea. Any help is appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gizmo Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 It looks like a Cretalamna appendiculata. http://www.oceansofk.../KS-sharks.html Happy Thanksgiving! November, 2016 April, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Congratulations on your first tooth; it's a nice one! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missingdigits Posted November 22, 2012 Author Share Posted November 22, 2012 It looks like a Cretalamna appendiculata. http://www.oceansofk.../KS-sharks.html Happy Thanksgiving! That looks good to me. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missingdigits Posted November 22, 2012 Author Share Posted November 22, 2012 Congratulations on your first tooth; it's a nice one! Thank you! Nothing special for most, but a big deal to me. I've been wanting to find one for a long time and glad could find one on my own. Here's a photo of the general area. It's beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foshunter Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Congrats on your first tooth, looking at the landscape there are most likely other interesting fossils to be found. Oceans of kansas is a great resource, study it so you can be familiar with other fossil shapes, never know what you might run across. No doubt it is Creto. app., will send pictures if you need them. Like your fur person----Tom Grow Old Kicking And Screaming !!"Don't Tread On Me" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missingdigits Posted November 22, 2012 Author Share Posted November 22, 2012 Congrats on your first tooth, looking at the landscape there are most likely other interesting fossils to be found. Oceans of kansas is a great resource, study it so you can be familiar with other fossil shapes, never know what you might run across. No doubt it is Creto. app., will send pictures if you need them. Like your fur person----Tom Thanks for the confirmatio on id! I love the OoK website and do study it regularly, trust me. Anecdotely, I found the tooth and was hunting fairly close to where he found the Credotus. http://www.oceansofkansas.com/Cretodus.html It was about what I expected. A lot of ammonites and a tooth. Didn't have too long to look though and really just wanted to explore as it is such a neat area. Here's a couple of other not so spectacular finds. Ammonite was complete but in pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missingdigits Posted November 22, 2012 Author Share Posted November 22, 2012 (edited) These guys are common on the surface in one spot but in bad shape. Edited November 22, 2012 by missingdigits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Foshunter Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Nice finds---Tom Grow Old Kicking And Screaming !!"Don't Tread On Me" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Congratulations on your first tooth! Definitely Cretolamna appendiculata and a very nice one. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 OOOooo that first self collected bet it feels great !!!!! I like the landscape pic too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullsnake Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Congratulations, missingdigits!!! Glad you're getting some hunting in! Really cool finds! Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfin1974 Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 I'll never forget finding my first tooth!!! awesome congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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