Anne Newcomb Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieira Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Sorry dont looks like a tooth to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Hey hi Anne, Welcome to TFF! Sorry but this rock is not a tooth. It does have the appearance of an algae and could be a stromatolite, but it could also be a strangely eroded sedimentary rock. It would help if You could tell us where it was found and what size it is. 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...
Rockwood Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Looks like boring bivalves and sponges have had a field day with a sedimentary rock to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 13 minutes ago, ynot said: It would help if You could tell us where it was found and what size it is. Washed up on Myrtle Beach, SC. 13.5cm x 11cm x 15 cm. ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 28 minutes ago, ynot said: It would help if You could tell us where it was found and what size it is. Tags. You're it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 27 minutes ago, Kane said: Washed up on Myrtle Beach, SC. 13.5cm x 11cm x 15 cm. 12 minutes ago, Rockwood said: Tags. You're it. 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...
Kane Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 3 minutes ago, ynot said: I'll make you a coffee. It's still relatively early out west. ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 1 minute ago, Kane said: I'll make you a coffee. It's still relatively early out west. Thanks! 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...
Anne Newcomb Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 Well the big rock or whatever is sticky like fossilized bone. I also found this - same place in Myrtle Beach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne Newcomb Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 And I found this, also at the same place - Myrtle Beach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 The last 2 pieces look like mammoth and mastodon. 2 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...
jcbshark Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 I'm with Tony on the last two pics being mammoth and mastodon 2 Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 The big problem, as I see it, with the original post being bone is the layering shown in the first photo just doesn't fit. I have no experience with mammoth teeth, but in general I think the dentin of a tooth looks less like this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-AnThOnY- Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Last one is pretty small, not sure about mastodon even though it certainly looks like it. Can we get a few other pics? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptychodus04 Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 The first piece does have a bone texture look to it. The weird "layers" could be due to weathering, or it could be natural. Fish bones are often layered similarly. I agree that it is not a mammoth tooth. 1 Regards, Kris Global Paleo Services, LLC https://globalpaleoservices.com http://instagram.com/globalpaleoservices http://instagram.com/kris.howe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 this looks like bone to me, not just a rock. Agreeing with ptychodus. Have seen laminated bone like this at the aurora mine back in the day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Anne, WELCOME to TFF Th There are great people here and , as you can see, we frequently have different opinions.... I believe 2nd is mammoth and 3rd is mastodon... Nice finds, Congratulations. I wish I had a nice beach to go and find fossil teeth, but all I find is seashells. I do find some strange items that are difficult to identify, like this one from a river in Florida far from salt water... I guess it could be a sponge, coral reef, but I am not sure, or maybe a tree trunk, but I am not sure of that either.... I keep it, go look at it every once in a while, and think about what it might be... 2 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 March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Yep, looks like one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 The big question is what kind of material we have there, in the case of the first and the last specimen (osteic, xylic or lithic), to determine the possible borings, or vice-versa, we have to know the possible tracemakers to determine their substrate. " 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...
Bronzviking Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Welcome to the forum from sunny Florida! I think the first specimen is a very weathered bone but I can't ID. The second and third specimen I agree with others, mammoth and mastodon. Two Great finds for sure! Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 I think the first piece of bone could be from the back of a whale skull. There is some heavily textured bone from that area of the skull. Here are a couple pictures I pulled off the internet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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