The seabed from 240 million years ago. Visible is a nothosaurid tooth and a fragment of a gastralium.

SilesianTriassic

Category: Osteology

  • Acrodus gaillardoti tooth 1/UMK

    Acrodus gaillardoti tooth 1/UMK

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    Acrodus gaillardoti? Middle Triassic, Upper Muschelkalk (ladinian), Upper Silesia, Poland Acrodus teeth are quite common in the Upper Muschelkalk sediments of Silesia, much more common than remains of other cartilaginous fishes (at least that’s my impression). Acrodus was a durophagous shark – it fed on armored prey. For this reason, its teeth do not resemble…

  • Sauropterygia cf. Nothosaurus tooth 1/LMK

    Sauropterygia cf. Nothosaurus tooth 1/LMK

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    Sauropterygia indet. cf. Nothosaurus Middle Triassic, Lower Muschelkalk (Anisian), Lower Gogolin Beds, Upper Silesia, Poland These types of teeth are traditionally designed as the genus Nothosaurus. This is a gross simplification. According to a paleontologist friend of mine, the four groups of Triassic reptiles have similar teeth (Nothosaurus, Germanosaurus, Cymatosaurus and Lamprosauroides) and we can’t…