Matt van Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Hello I found this recently and would like to ask for help in identifying what it might be I think it might be a tooth but not sure ?? Thanks matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Where is this from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt van Posted August 16, 2017 Author Share Posted August 16, 2017 Hello I found it in cornwall uk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Welcome to TFF! Can You post pictures of the ends and other sides? Also - please include a scale for size reference. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Hmmm.... a few ideas pop to mind but none fit just right... “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailingAlongToo Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 @Fossil-Hound Does this look like any of those buggy things you play with? Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about science books......... Sam Cooke - (What A) Wonderful World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 I believe it's a piece of banded flint - interesting stuff that has an annoying habit of looking like a fossil that no-one can quite identify... Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taogan Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Another vote for a flint or chert pseudofossil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt van Posted August 16, 2017 Author Share Posted August 16, 2017 Here is some more pictures with sizes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 I agree with the others. Not a lot of fossils in Cornwall either. John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Good photos - I still think banded flint, like this (from: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/17962 ): Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossil-Hound Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 22 hours ago, SailingAlongToo said: @Fossil-Hound Does this look like any of those buggy things you play with? LOL. Too smooth to be a trilobite. If it was a trilobite it would win the record for the most worn out trilobite ever to be discovered. Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macrophyseter Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Ill have to agree with banded flint. It reminded me so much of a mastodon tooth, but then I realized that the texture is too smooth and solid to be bone material If you're a fossil nut from Palos Verdes, San Pedro, Redondo Beach, or Torrance, feel free to shoot me a PM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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