Oscar Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Found this in a gravel deposit on the Brazos River. I'm totally new to this, but I think it's a tooth. Measures 2 1/2" × 1 3/8". Thoughts? EDIT *Sorry if this posted to the wrong place. Edited February 8, 2021 by Oscar New user error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 If a woodchuck could chuck it ? Petrified wood I think. Palmoxylon maybe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
val horn Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 it is not a tooth. the shape is suggestively pointy but the anatomy of your fossil is not tooth like. Its multiple flowing lines look like wood thus rockwood suggests petrified wood. teeth have an enamel layer harder, shiny white, blue, black, brown which if it has lines the lines widen to the end of the crown and narrow to a fine pt at the tip. A tooth additional might have a root of dentin, and a hollow at the center midline of the root where the nerves and blood vessels go into the tooth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsaacTheFossilMan Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Not tooth, but wood. Very nice find; although I disagree with Palmoxylon, this is in no way my speciality, so don't go off my opinion! ~ Isaac; www.isaactfm.com "Don't move! He can't see us if we don't move!" - Alan Grant Come to the spring that is The Fossil Forum, where the stream of warmth and knowledge never runs dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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