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Fauve Wilson posted a new activity comment 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months agoHi, @cyrus-santiago, because of the sediment still attached to the tooth, it is hard to pin point even with a scale bar (thank you for adding the scale bar by the way). If you think that you can wash away some of the sediment, we may be able to get it down to specific epithet, but for now I would put it under the genus Carcharhinus. Lemon sharks…[Read more]
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months agoHi, @cyrus-santiago – this looks like a gastropod whirl to me! You can update your classification to be Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda. I’m not sure we will be able to narrow down the classification any further since it looks like an internal mold. Talk to you soon, Jen
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months agoHi, @cyrus-santiago – Maybe @fauve-wilson can chime in as an expert and local. Cyrus thinks this is either a lemon shark or possibly a dusky shark tooth – can you tell from the images they uploaded? Talk to y’all soon, Jen
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months agoHi, @cyrus-santiago – let me tag in some local hunters to help you out @samantha-ocon, @jeanette-pirlo, @vperez, @mackenzie-smith. This sort of looks like a bone to me but is also very worn so it’s hard to tell.
Hi, @cyrus-santiago, because of the sediment still attached to the tooth, it is hard to pin point even with a scale bar (thank you for adding the scale bar by the way). If you think that you can wash away some of the sediment, we may be able to get it down to specific epithet, but for now I would put it under the genus Carcharhinus. Lemon sharks…[Read more]