New to buying dino teeth and trying to ID this one?

[cnhm]

Hi! New fossil collector and forum member
My friend gave me this tooth which she found in an antique shop in Georgia USA, she said she thought it was a hadrosaur tooth, which it doesn't look anything of the sort to me! Looks more like a carnivore tooth except there are no serrations. I would guess spinosaur tooth but it seems unusually fat and an odd shape in general compared to a lot of the pics I've seen? Perhaps a croc? I don't have the experience to have much confidence in my own assessments so I would appreciate it if somebody would share some wisdom  
Thank you!!

[ynot]

Welcome to TFF!

This is a fossil whale tooth, not a dino tooth.

Nice find.

Tony

[Fossildude19]

Welcome to the Forum.  

Looks like a whale tooth to me, but wait for some other opinions.  
Regards,

[ynot]

1 minute ago, Fossildude19 said:

Welcome to the Forum.  

Looks like a whale tooth to me, but wait for some other opinions.  
Regards,

I beat You this time!!!

 

Tony

[Fossildude19]

1 hour ago, ynot said:

I beat You this time!!!

 

Tony

 

 

 

[-Andy-]

I concur with whale. Did thought it might've been croc but they don't have roots like that.

 

 

Modern whale teeth

  

 

Prehistoric and modern whale teeth

 

[cnhm]

Thank you for your time everybody! Mmm that's a bit of a shame, my friend spent a bit of money on it thinking it was a dinosaur fossil :/

In the interests of learning, what were the main things that made you say "oh yes that's a whale tooth?" 

[Coco]

Hi,

 

Andy, are you sure that the teeth which you show come from a whale (the pic with 5 teeth) ? That looks like strangely recent teeth of hippopotamus !

 

Coco

[-Andy-]

56 minutes ago, cnhm said:

Thank you for your time everybody! Mmm that's a bit of a shame, my friend spent a bit of money on it thinking it was a dinosaur fossil :/

In the interests of learning, what were the main things that made you say "oh yes that's a whale tooth?" 

 

Sorry to hear that. Now that your friend and you know about TFF, you could always post here before purchasing anything. There are lotsa experts here ready to help.

 

The size firstly. There's only so many predatory animals that can have such large teeth, and the shape of whale teeth are unlike theropods, bears and felines. Whale teeth also have a cross section that reminds me of a hollowed-out tusk.

 

19 minutes ago, Coco said:

Hi,

 

Andy, are you sure that the teeth which you show come from a whale (the pic with 5 teeth) ? That looks like strangely recent teeth of hippopotamus !

 

Coco

 

They apparently came from a killer whale. I did a search, and whale teeth are fatter and less symmetrical compared to extant hippo teeth.

 

Whale


Hippo

 

[Coco]

Oh... I have to do pics of mine !

 

Coco

[cnhm]

5 hours ago, -Andy- said:

 

Sorry to hear that. Now that your friend and you know about TFF, you could always post here before purchasing anything. There are lotsa experts here ready to help.

 

The size firstly. There's only so many predatory animals that can have such large teeth, and the shape of whale teeth are unlike theropods, bears and felines. Whale teeth also have a cross section that reminds me of a hollowed-out tusk.

 

Thank you for the advice! And yes I will be sure to post on the forum with any future queries  It's not a disaster anyway! I'm mostly a dinosaur enthusiast, but it's hard to complain about such a nice specimen of something else

Would you be able to recommend any good books or resources on ID'ing teeth and fossils, especially dinos? I've read the (not very many) web pages that come up on google that offer basic advice about triceratops teeth etc, but I'd really like to be more knowledgeable in general. How do you guys get to know so much about teeth etc? I can't seem to get too far with the University of Google

[Coco]

Hi,

 

Here is a pic of my teeth I was thinking they are hippopotamus ! Whale or hippopotamus ? That is the question...

 

 

Coco