05115 - Top Beautiful 1.18 Inch Sclerorhynchus (Cartilaginous Sawfish) Tooth Late Cretaceous Raptor Acanthopyge contusus

Acanthopyge contusus

Thurmond and Jones 1981

The name is from the Ancient Greek for "straight fracture

In this case the lateral serrations have not been preserved

Preserve seven of his huge teeth

05115 - Top Beautiful 1.18 Inch Sclerorhynchus (Cartilaginous Sawfish) Tooth Late Cretaceous Raptor Acanthopyge contususBeautiful tooth of a cartilaginous sawfish. It has no restorations or repairs. Sclerorhynchus sp, Woodward 1889 (cartilaginous fish) Chondrichthyes Sclerorhynchiformes Sclerorhynchidae PaleoDB taxon number: 34712 Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1 1 613 Parent taxon: Sclerorhynchidae according to M. E. Suarez and H. Cappetta 2004 See also Arambourg 1940, Cappetta 1987,