Dog claw? Fossil?

[spcchap]

Hey everyone,

 

Happy new year!  My son and I found this today in Hogtown Creek in Gainesville, FL.  To me, it looks like a dog's claw (are they called claws?  nails?).  Anyways, at first my son thought it was a shark tooth, but it doesn't look like any tooth I have ever seen.  It has something that resembles the gums of a tooth.  The bottom is flattened, but that could just be wear.  Please let me know what you think it could be.  Hopefully the pictures are clear.  Thanks in advance!!

 

Sam

[PaleoNoel]

Dolphin tooth, congrats to your son on a cool fossil!

[garyc]

I'm way more familiar with terrestrial mammals; but to me this looks like a shark's tooth with a broken tip and heavily eroded root......especially the second pic.

[PaleoNoel]

3 hours ago, garyc said:

I'm way more familiar with terrestrial mammals; but to me this looks like a shark's tooth with a broken tip and heavily eroded root......especially the second pic.

You could be right, we need more pictures of the fossil.

[Al Dente]

What is the size? Need pictures of the other side.

[spcchap]

Here's some more pics of the sides.  It's about half an inch in size.  It has a very pronounced curve when view from (what I consider to be) the side.  The "tooth" part appears much too rounded to be a shark tooth.  Thanks for the help everyone.  My son very much wants to know what this is.  he was hoping a dire wolf claw, but I don't think so

[Coco]

Probably broken shark tooth, but pics aren't very clear.

 

Coco

[spcchap]

I came across this while Googling.  It has some of the same characteristics of what we found: