Fossil Tooth From Florida Beach.

[fpfossils]

Found this tooth on a beach near Fort Pierce Florida.  

 

It is almost exactly one inch long across the crown and 3/8 inch wide.  The width is very irregular as you can see.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

 

[Shellseeker]

It is a horse tooth Equus .sp,  barely erupted out of the lower jaw.  Here is one of mine, about the same size as yours. 1 inch x .375 inch,

likely an m1 or m2 as these type of teeth are measured.

 

[Harry Pristis]

I'm not sure about this specimen -- my impression is that it is a horse cheek tooth fragment.  

 

For comparison:

 

       

[fpfossils]

Very helpful.

Thanks.

[Tetradium]

2 hours ago, fpfossils said:

Very helpful.

Thanks.

Did you find it after that hurricane or recently? Consider fossil vertebrates are very very rare on Atlantic side of Florida and I heard someone found horse tooth last year after the hurricane. I had only found a few small shark teeth fossils at Fort Pierce but harvested all the big fossil whelks and quahogs in the area lol. 

[fpfossils]

Not after a storm.   I've seen more after storms, but fewer at other times as well.