TroyB Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 This is my first find of the year. I believe it is from a rare mosasaur called "Globidens Dakotensis". I found it in central Texas area. It has the root section still attached. So Cool..... Tank Tankman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 definitely looks globidensy. congrats on a cool find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh-Man Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 AWESOME find Troy! Anything else from the trip? What is geology? "Rocks for Jocks!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Daniel AKA (Bones) Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Wow! this is a De ja vu. I found a piece similar 15 years ago in the Oligocene of all places. Never ID it. v = 0.25 * g0.5 * SL1.67 * h-1.17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Wow! this is a De ja vu. I found a piece similar 15 years ago in the Oligocene of all places. Never ID it. Well, TroyB's tooth really is a Globidens (very rare, and fully rooted too). Since I'm pretty sure there were no Mosasaurs in the Oligocene, yours must be something else. Since I can't seem to enlarge your pic for detail, and have nothing for scale, I can't hazard a guess. "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...
Dave Daniel AKA (Bones) Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Well, TroyB's tooth really is a Globidens (very rare, and fully rooted too).Since I'm pretty sure there were no Mosasaurs in the Oligocene, yours must be something else. Since I can't seem to enlarge your pic for detail, and have nothing for scale, I can't hazard a guess. Ours do look similar. At risk of not showing my ignorance, I have never show it to anyone. I will tell you I have found a Crock skull in the same area. enlighten me Yoda. v = 0.25 * g0.5 * SL1.67 * h-1.17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Ours do look similar.At risk of not showing my ignorance, I have never show it to anyone. I will tell you I have found a Crock skull in the same area. enlighten me Yoda. Yoda here, Cross formation contamination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metopocetus Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Daniel AKA (Bones) Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Yoda here,Cross formation contamination. Not possible. This and the crock were found flat dab in the middle of brule. There isn't a possibility of float from upper layers and was half way up the formation of the oreodon beds. Next suggestion? v = 0.25 * g0.5 * SL1.67 * h-1.17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 There was at thread last year about a tooth from the Brule that looked a lot like this one; I recall that one member said that it was a ringer for a tooth that was missing from a mammal skull he'd found there (sorry, can't recall the names of the players, nor of the critter). "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...
tracer Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 well, darn. now, after googling "fish teeth" images, i want some goliath tiger fish teeth. but sheepsheads are funny sheepshead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Nice!! All we have ever found are the enameled parts, no roots. The only whole enameled ones we have found have been rather small, but I have found pieces of much larger specimens that tease me to what is out there. Found mine in Mississippi at the Frankstown site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
non-remanié Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 WOW very nice. I am jealous This is my first find of the year. I believe it is from a rare mosasaur called "Globidens Dakotensis". I found it in central Texas area. It has the root section still attached. So Cool.....Tank ---Wie Wasser schleift den Stein, wir steigen und fallen--- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy 55 Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Do you think that this could be the same or just a worn down whale tooth? It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Do you think that this could be the same or just a worn down whale tooth? Take a look at the wrinkles in the enamel of TroyB's tooth; that feature is classic Globidens. "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...
Auspex Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Wow! this is a De ja vu. I found a piece similar 15 years ago in the Oligocene of all places. Never ID it. Do you have, or can you take, more pictures of this tooth (with something for scale)? The earlier thread I mentioned re: similar badlands tooth is: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?sh...c=2732&st=0 "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...
Dave Daniel AKA (Bones) Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Do you have, or can you take, more pictures of this tooth (with something for scale)?The earlier thread I mentioned re: similar badlands tooth is: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?sh...c=2732&st=0 I took a look at that thread. The tooth that Joe mentions is probably a Hyracodon tooth. However, they are curfed on the inside of the tooth like any other mammal incisor. I have several of these skulls. The tooth that I have is a perfect round ball on the end. Thanks for taking the time to find the thread though. Heres a picture for scale. And a picture of one on my Rhino's v = 0.25 * g0.5 * SL1.67 * h-1.17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Do you think that this could be the same or just a worn down whale tooth? Looks to me like a worn whale tooth, Worthy. Does it not have crenulations in the enamel? http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 dave, that thing of yourn is a trailer hitch off'n a mobile pharynx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreekCrawler Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Way to go Troy,that Globidens is killer!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh-Man Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Troy's is definitely from the cretaceous. As for the other, very similar looking one, looks like something I saw in the mouth of a dude I encountered at a gas station in Louisiana last year... What is geology? "Rocks for Jocks!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroyB Posted January 4, 2009 Author Share Posted January 4, 2009 Thanks for all the reply's. This tooth came from Upper Cretaceous material, around 72-80 milllion years old, in central Texas. I usually find shark teeth there and occassionally a meat eating Mosasaur teeth, but this is the first shell/clam eating Mosasaur tooth I have ever found and heard of from Texas. Troy B. Tankman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Great find!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 This is my first find of the year. I believe it is from a rare mosasaur called "Globidens Dakotensis". I found it in central Texas area. It has the root section still attached. So Cool.....Tank awsome tooth, good way to start the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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