Found in South Dakota - Tooth?

[Lactaniac]

Recently found this on a buddy’s ranch in South Dakota. Approx 1 3/4” long. Any ideas??

 

 

  

 

[Fossildude19]

Not sure these pictures show enough - may need additional views.

@Troodon   @jpc

 

Cropped and enlarged:

 

 

 

 

[Troodon]

Need to determine age what county were you in?  Does not look Dinosaurian.   No idea.

 

[jpc]

closer up photos (in focus) would help, but it looks more like a river worn piece of bone form here. 

[Lactaniac]

Thanks everyone! Here are some additional photos...

@Fossildude19 @jpc @Troodon

 

  

  

  

[Shellseeker]

10 hours ago, Lactaniac said:

Recently found this on a buddy’s ranch in South Dakota. Approx 1 3/4” long. Any ideas??

This is going to be difficult... whether bone or tooth and whose tooth may be hard to determine.

Let me for the moment assume tooth and .... SPECULATE !!!!!

If land mammal, it kind of reminds me of an incisor (especially your 2nd photo),, otherwise it looks like a dolphin tooth..

 

How can you help?  If this is the 1st and only fossil ever found on your friend's ranch... not too much. 

 

EDIT :   With your new photos, I am definitely thinking land mammal incisor....

 

 

What types and ages of fossils have been found there previously ? What is the general age of the land your friend's farm is on?

Edited May 18, 2021 by Shellseeker

[jpc]

Much better photos this time around.  This helps.  I think shelleseeker is close.  I think it is a mammal tooth root.  The chewing part is broken off )either recently or before it fossilized) and that is the blacker end.  

 

Where is SD is the ranch?  This would help us narrow down the age of the thing, and eliminate some possibilities..  

[Lactaniac]

Ok thank you! His Ranch is in Buffalo Gap, SD...not sure the age of the land in that area??

[jpc]

Buffalo Gap.. .that's a tough one.  That is right on the uplift of the Black Hills so there is Cretaceous to Oligocene in the immediate area.   Judging form the rocks in the background of your first few pix, I think this may have come from the lower White River Group... called the Chadron Formation in SoDak.  And now I think evenore that it is a mammal root.  These are all just educated guesses, though.  Look around in the area for more good stuff and we may get more clues.  

[garyc]

I’ll throw my hat in the ring...... tusk from a very senile peccary? It’s the 3rd picture in the second set of pics that leads me to this guess. It looks like the tooth has been abraded by an opposing tusk

[Coco]

Hi,

 

17 hours ago, jpc said:

called the Chadron Formation in SoDak.

@jpcjust for my information, is SoDak = South Dakota, as SoCal = South California ?

 

Coco

[jpc]

3 hours ago, Coco said:

Hi,

 

@jpcjust for my information, is SoDak = South Dakota, as SoCal = South California ?

 

Coco

Yes, and NoDak is North Dakota.   But no one says NoCar and SoCar or the Carolinas... or do they?

 

[garyc]

I’m still curious about this tooth. Maybe @Harry Pristis can weigh in?

[Harry Pristis]

I think it's unidentifiable, fruitless to speculate without more information.

[darrow]

maybe a horse canine...  but thats little more than a guess.