Pathologic Chubutensis Shark Tooth

This Pathologic Chubutensis Shark Tooth was about the last thing I found. I was dragging back to the bus at the end of a stifling day. I spied a root poking out of the ground and it looked exactly like a modern tiger shark tooth. I tapped it with the tip of my boot to make sure before I made all the effort to bend over and pick it up. When I first saw it, I thought it was broken and missing a cusp, but the strange angle of the thin root lobe caused me to scrape away the remaining sediment to reveal a really cool pathology. The one side is completely compressed and the cusp is not present. It is not missing - it was never there. You can tell from the side photo. To boot, everything is there on this tooth. No chips or dings, even in the fragile pathologic root lobe. A very great way to cap off my best Lee Creek hunt so far.