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

SilesianTriassic

Tag: Hybodontiformes

  • 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…

  • 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…