A surprisingly common find in the Belgrade formation, these rostral teeth often appear like bone chips or pieces of wood. The teeth are often badly worn and/or broken and usually heavily scratched (particularly on the ventral side) from stirring the ocean bottom for food. The ventral side of the Fig. 1C tooth still has a bit of the limestone matrix attached.

A lateral view of the teeth (Fig 1D enlarged) show that they have an flattened ovoid cross-section and lack the posterior groove as found in rostral teeth of Pristis. Fig 1B is an unusual pathologic rostral tooth. As seen in the lateral view, it has a bend in the tooth just above the root.

Fig. 1 Anoxypristis rostral teeth Belgrade Formation: Late Oligocene, North Carolina