Re: Bone ID

["Dan felps" <edrioasteroid@hotmail.com>]

Are you sure this isn't a fish tooth?  It certainly is not a croc tooth.  It 
looks a lot like one of the rostral teeth of a swordfish that I have seen 
from the Miocene of the eastern US Coastal Plain.

Sincerely,

Dan Phelps
http://www.uky.edu/OtherOrgs/KPS

> From: "Simon, Robert (RISI)" <RISI@chevron.com>
> Reply-To: RISI@chevron.com
> To: "'dinosaur@usc.edu'" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Subject: Bone ID
> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 04:39:56 -0800
>
>  <<Possible Talon.url>>
>
>  http://www.amosolson.com/talon/
>
> The above URL has two pictures that I was told about and needs proper
> identification. It was collected from the Cretaceous Thermopolis Shale near
> Cody, Wyoming. I believe some plesiosaur bones have been found in this 
> area.
> Is it possibly a crocodile tooth?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Simon
> << PossibleTalon.url >>

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