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

SilesianTriassic

Tag: Acrodus lateralis

  • Acrodus lateralis, tooth, 4/UMK

    Acrodus lateralis, tooth, 4/UMK

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    Acrodus lateralis Middle Triassic, Upper Muschelkalk (Ladinian), Upper Silesia, Poland A beautifully preserved tooth crown from the hybodont shark Acrodus lateralis. The teeth of this species are smaller than those of Acrodus gaillardoti, with more refined ornamentation. The delicate, yet distinct, branching ridges converge to a keel that runs the entire length of the tooth.…

  • Sauropterygia assoc. Acrodus teeth 2/LMK

    Sauropterygia assoc. Acrodus teeth 2/LMK

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    Sauropterygia indet. assoc. Acrodus sp. Middle Triassic, Lower Muschelkalk (Anisian), Gogolin Beds, Upper Silesia, Poland This is the type of fossil I like best. The plate you see is a snapshot, a frozen image of a section of the seabed from 240 million years ago. Between fragments of crushed, older sediment, pebbles, and crushed fragments…