MakoMeCrazy Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 It has been forever since I have posted on here, but I need help Identifying an unknown fossil. This fossil was found around Charleston, South Carolina along with many Angustidens and other shark teeth. This fossil appears to be approximately 4.5 inches from tip to base. I believe this fossil comes from the Oligocene epoch. Please check out the very center and the growth rings. Thank you very much for the help! I am identifying this fossil for a friend and the fossil is currently located in Charleston, SC, so I am not able to take more pictures of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 It looks like an ivory tusk, but wait for the experts to chime in! Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Hey Brian, I'll tell you what's making me crazy is that GW you have as an avatar, what a beauty! I know absolutely nothing about Dugong bones except the ribs are extremely dense. I'm getting a tusky vibe from this bad boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 I agree with tusk, but I do not see any schreger lines, and it does not look right for walrus (to old anyways). 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...
Fossildude19 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 @Boesse Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Sperm Whale tooth will be my guess. 2 " 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...
Rockwood Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 6 minutes ago, abyssunder said: Sperm Whale tooth will be my guess. The hollow being this close to the apparent tip would be better explained this way. @Fossildude19 I'm putting you in too, just because of the @. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Searching for Dugong ribs as examples I found this!!! @Rockwood @Fossildude19 @Boesse I had missed it first time around Let's give Bobby another chance to comment. @abyssunder Source for this photo??? Having difficulty with whale, unless it is a whale tusk !!!! The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 7 hours ago, Shellseeker said: Searching for Dugong ribs as examples I found this!!! How late in the Oligocene may be indicative ? Wouldn't those have to be heavily seasonal LAGs in a dugong rib ? They both look a lot more like teeth to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 (edited) 7 hours ago, Shellseeker said: Searching for Dugong ribs as examples I found this!!! @Rockwood @Fossildude19 @Boesse I had missed it first time around Let's give Bobby another chance to comment. @abyssunder Source for this photo??? Having difficulty with whale, unless it is a whale tusk !!!! Happy to mentioned me. Sorry for the unmetioned source. After all theese years, I was lucky to find my resource: https://ehive.com/collections/3408/objects/23489/sperm-whale-tooth Edited August 20, 2021 by abyssunder 2 " 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...
Shellseeker Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 4 hours ago, Rockwood said: How late in the Oligocene may be indicative ? Wouldn't those have to be heavily seasonal LAGs in a dugong rib ? They both look a lot more like teeth to me. Ditto.... It does not look like any Dugong rib I have ever seen.... The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 Can you give us a view of the tip? Does it look intact or rather like it used to be thicker and eroded that way? Best Regards, J Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 This is not a dugongid rib - ribs counterintuitively grow on the exterior surface and the interior surface along the inside of the ribcage is resorbed - so the ribs have growth lines, but they cut across a tiny section of the bone, like a little plug taken from a much larger cross-section of a tree trunk: OPs specimen is in fact a tooth - probably not a tusk, more likely to be the root of a sperm whale tooth. It's not a walrus or dugong tusk, and it has a closed root, so it's not from a proboscidean. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 21 minutes ago, Boesse said: cross-section of a tree trunk: I was tempted to call it ring porous, but knew it wouldn't be worth checking to see if that was right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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