Adelina13 Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Hello everyone, I am new here, and i was brought by the fact that I found on the Black Sea side (Romania) a tooth (i think). I have it for 5 days, and it started to break,so please, first i need help understating what it is, and then , how to preserve it ... thank you in advance for your help 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sjfriend Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 No expert but don't believe that's a tooth. With no enamel that I see and the spongy interior looks to me as bone. From what I can't say. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsaacTheFossilMan Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 +1 for bone 1 1 ~ 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...
Mahnmut Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Hello and welcome to the forum. As stated before, this is a piece of bone, not a tooth. Maybe someone else here on the forum can tell what kind of bone. There are two main reasons it is falling apart: it was full of water and is drying to fast. And it contains salt from the seawater. So maybe you can preserve it by putting it carefully first in fresh water without salt. let it soak for a day, change the water. Then you can use wood glue (the white kind, PVA). mix the glue with water till it is like milk, and let it soak into the bone. That is the simple way that may help to stabilize it. For improtant archaeological finds from saltwater, archeologists often spend month to get the salt out and use different chemicals for preservation. But this may work for your bone. Best Regards, J 2 1 1 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 looks like the end of a mammal scapula. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdp Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 As others have suggested, I think this is a chunk of mammal bone. The flaking brown color looks like someone covered it in lacquer or paint. Not certain though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelina13 Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 18 minutes ago, Mahnmut said: Hello and welcome to the forum. As stated before, this is a piece of bone, not a tooth. Maybe someone else here on the forum can tell what kind of bone. There are two main reasons it is falling apart: it was full of water and is drying to fast. And it contains salt from the seawater. So maybe you can preserve it by putting it carefully first in fresh water without salt. let it soak for a day, change the water. Then you can use wood glue (the white kind, PVA). mix the glue with water till it is like milk, and let it soak into the bone. That is the simple way that may help to stabilize it. For improtant archaeological finds from saltwater, archeologists often spend month to get the salt out and use different chemicals for preservation. But this may work for your bone. Best Regards, J Thank you very much for the time that you took to explain and help me. They are expanding the Black Sea beach side and i was really excited when i found it in the "new" sand , and google lens didn't really helped when it said it is megalodon tooth... We will keep in mind your advices and try to preserve it, it's kinda extraordinary to find things like this, and it gives us a taste of new hobbies . Thank you again! Wish you all the best! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Very welcome. I do not think the brown colour is artificial by the way, bones from the Rhine river often do look similar. 1 1 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelina13 Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 2 minutes ago, jdp said: As others have suggested, I think this is a chunk of mammal bone. The flaking brown color looks like someone covered it in lacquer or paint. Not certain though. The place where we found it, new sand brought by authorities from the bottom of the black sea, didn't really gave us this idea, that someone else could've cover it in paint and throw it... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Welcome from Romania, Timisoara! I agree with the others. There are no Megalodon teeth in the Black Sea, unfortunately. You have a nice bone fragment there. 1 1 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan Slater Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Agree with all, not a megalodon tooth and appears to be bone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdp Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 3 hours ago, Adelina13 said: The place where we found it, new sand brought by authorities from the bottom of the black sea, didn't really gave us this idea, that someone else could've cover it in paint and throw it... It may be an older object or artifact. I don't think someone painted it yesterday and threw it there. For all I know, it's possible it is an artifact that is hundreds of years old. It just does not seem to be a fossil. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelina13 Posted March 20, 2021 Author Share Posted March 20, 2021 I took more pictures in natural light. The difference between this and the first ones, is that now it has a layer of something on it (my bf tried to preserve it with something) and now shines more ... Thank you all for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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