Potential Predator Tooth?

[jonswFlorida]

Hi, I found this tooth in central Florida, would anyone please be able to tell which species it's from? My friend thinks it can potentially be a predator tooth. It is not whole either.

Thank You!

[Shellseeker]

Welcome to the forum..  It is a welcoming place, lots of knowledgeable people.

I retired in 2007 and took on a new "job" ,  hunting Florida fossils.  I have found thousands of Florida mammal teeth and within that number a very large number of predator teeth... LOTS of those predator teeth were broken... sometimes badly. 

 

This does look like a fragment of a predator tooth..  with Black shiney enamel..  I have been fooled so many times. We have many dark water rivers where tanic acid stains everything black over millions of years. 

So a Dugong rib (10-20 mya) gets broken up in all sorts of shapes including triangular sections and then polished to a high gloss by sand, water, current.

 

So , how to distinguish?  This is only one of your photos that shows the problem on what is contained inside the "tooth".. Globular bubbles

I know of no tooth that has that inside.. many times it is the marrow of broken bones...

Here is a bear tooth

Here is a SaberCat tooth

 

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