Need Id Please - Fossil Found While Diving Edisto River In S.c.

[Kniero 0]

Hey everyone, I'm new to this but I was hoping to get your help with an ID for this fossil..

I found it and several neat things diving the Edisto River in SC this past weekend.

Let me know if you need any better pics.

Thanks - Kniero

[caldigger 8,237]

Perhaps outdoor (natural) lighting would help. Indoors offer to much shadowing.

[Harry Pristis 5,580]

It appears to be a minor loph of an unerupted mastodon tooth. . . that is, an enamel shell of such a loph. I say unerupted because such a loph should be filled with dentin when the tooth is fully developed.

[Grimlock 29]

I agree. It looks like part of a mastodon tooth to me. Cool find.

[Kniero 0]

Thanks for the insight! I'd take better pics if it wasn't the middle of the night

Here's some more for your viewing pleasure:

[Megaladonna 3]

Nice

[Harry Pristis 5,580]

Thanks for the insight! I'd take better pics if it wasn't the middle of the night

Here's some more for your viewing pleasure:

In these brighter images, it appears that the enamel shell is MOL filled in with dentin.

[Salty 14]

Nice tooth! I can't wait to find a mastodon tooth someday....sweet!

[KATYTXHUNTER 0]

Nice find! I just scored my first mastadon tooth last weekend also.