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A slightly educated guess based on size: a gompothere tooth. Link.  

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From Wikimedia.org

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gomphothere_Teeth_South_America_Cuvier_1806.jpg

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it looks like a piece of a mammoth molar or an other pachyderm;

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Looks like a couple plates from one end of a mammoth tooth :)

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I think it's a partial mammoth tooth.

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Agreed. Partial mammoth tooth. An internet search for "mammoth tooth" or "mammuthus tooth" will turn up similar images to compare to (like the following):

 

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Thank you all for your answers! I am much more of a dinosaur person, so mammals and proboscideans are not my forte. :bone: :dinosmile:

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