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This One caught My Eye


JonUte

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Hi again, Everyone.  My wife found this while beach combing and I wondered what to make of it.  The tooth won’t come off even though I tried prying it.  I don’t want to get brutal n case something breaks.

 

The item is 3/4” long.

 

Any thoughts?

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There's no tooth there. Just an unusually shaped rock. Fossil, or even modern, teeth will have enamel the root will have dentin and cementum layers. None of these are evident here. I also don't see any parts of this specimen that shaped like an actual tooth.

 

 

Mark.

 

Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them!

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I'd leave the shark tooth where it is. To prove to skeptics that it is really a fossil if nothing else. 

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