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Hello! I found this on the beach while looking for sharks teeth. Any ideas on what it is?

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Looks a bit like a mammal tooth, but the first thing the people who can tell you will ask for is photos of both ends and the other side.

 

 

Mark.

 

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Can you please offer us pictures of multiple sides of this thing?

* seconds apart Mark!

 

 

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Hi,

 

And the size ! ;)

 

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43 minutes ago, Rockwood said:

Oh come on, someone needs to guess whale tooth. :)

Ok, fine, I guess whale tooth

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2 hours ago, Rockwood said:

Oh come on, someone needs to guess whale tooth. :)

Apparently you just did! :default_rofl:

 

 

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1 hour ago, caldigger said:

Apparently you just did! :default_rofl:

We'll see. :unsure:

But it's polling well so far. :)

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Well,

Whale may be the leading candidate but I am not seeing the "banding" typical of whale teeth.... Here are a couple of whale teeth around the same size,  My 1st take was bear, but will see what Bobby says.  I have always been kinda contrary.. :headscratch:I will say that whale is more likely than bear, but maybe less likely than the field

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4 hours ago, Shellseeker said:

I am not seeing the "banding" typical of whale teeth

Cementum vs dentin could be the cause of the discrepancy ?

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7 hours ago, Shellseeker said:

 

Whale may be the leading candidate but I am not seeing the "banding" typical of whale teeth 

 

That is because this one is so river/beach eroded

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You are likely correct on the wear pattern.  It is why Bobby is so key.  I was thinking that something like this could be a posibility:

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Difficult to say owing to incompleteness - however, I am used to seeing that 'grid' pattern on the dentine-cementum contact in cetaceans, sperm whales especially, and this could be a waterworn fragment of a sperm whale tooth.

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