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Christine Kempter posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoChristine Kempter has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
Christine Kempter posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 8 months ago
Christine Kempter has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
Hey @christine-kempter !!! This looks like a shark tooth. Georgia’s state fossil. @bill-heim could help you identify it.
Thank you matthew-gramling
hmmmm looks like it could be Cretoxyrhina but hard to tell without seeing the shape of the root or how big. curious if anyone else knows?
Glad to help @christine-kempter ! Y’all get a lot more sharks teeth and marine vertebrates than we do up on the Valley and Ridge province of the state. There are 4 major formations that make up geological strata around Hephzibah: Middendorf Formation, Tuscaloosa Formation, Twiggs Clay Formation, and Dry Branch Formation (Irwinton Sand Member). The first two are Cretaceous ( Cenomanian-Turonian) strata and the last two are Eocene (Priabonian) strata. So, narrowing which formation your shark tooth came from can help identify it. Here is great page on Georgia’s Eocene fossils: https://www.georgiasfossils.com/14a-eocene-fossils–stratigraphy.html And journal article on sharks teeth from the Dry Branch https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334044885_Late_Eocene_Priabonian_elasmobranchs_from_the_Dry_Branch_Formation_Barnwell_Group_of_Aiken_County_South_Carolina_USA
Need an image of the other side to confirm ID. A scale would help as well along with the location it came from. It is not Cretoxyrhina which does not have serrations. Appears to be Carcharodon but could be Carcharocles depending on what the other side (lingual side) looks like.
Ok I’m posting now
I found the tooth at Spirit Creek in Hephzibah, Georgia