Hello Everyone!
Does anyone have any idea on what this tooth could be? Late Cretaceous, freshwater sediment, lepisosteids and pycnodonts are known from the locality. It doesn't seem to be Lepisosteid, but could it be Amiid?
Any help is welcome!
Have a nice day!
Dear Marton,
The photograph is not very clear, but still you can observe the striations in the proximal region of the tooth. You are asking weather this tooth could be of an amiid or a lepisosteid fish. Those fishes have very different dental morphologies. I suggest that you to read two papers to find the answer, but also in those papers you will find literature that could help you to understand the characteristics of amiid and lepisosteid teeth.
Grande, L. & W. Bemis. !998. Comprehensive phylogenetic study of ammd fishes ......J. Vert. Memoir 4. See Lance Grande or William Bemis profiles in RG.
Grande, L. 2010. Empirical synthetic pattern study of gars (Lepisosteifomes.....ASIH. Special pub. 6. See Lance Grande's profile.
Best wishes,
Gloria
Dear Gloria,
thank you for the answer :)
Actually, this tooth does not show plicidentine structure, this is the major reason why I doubt that it is a lepisosteid tooth.
Thank You for suggesting literature too :) I already checked both of them.
On the other hand, maybe it could be a very fragmentary and worn gar tooth, but I have nothing to proove it. I thought that somebody saw similar teeth elsewhere.
Regards;
Márton
p.s.: I wrote a private message to you, about the topic of the other fish bone elements.
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