Meg Ledge Whale Tooth?

[James Savage]

Hello and thanks for looking

I found this on a recent scuba trip to the Meg Ledge.  The ledge is offshore North Carolina that has lag deposits of large shark teeth (mostly C. megalodon).  The age of most of the fossils are miocene but mastodon teeth and angustiden teeth that have been reworked from other formations have been found nearby recently as well.

 

I'm guessing that this may be a whale tooth (possibly Sperm Whale/Physeter as I have a few from southeastern US rivers) as it looks similar and has a similar density to others that I've found.  There have been occasional whale teeth and vertebrae mixed in with the whale bones and shark teeth found there.  This doesn't have a hollow core at the root end and the crown is a little more offset than I normally see (maybe some of the cementum has eroded away?.  Marine bivalves, etc. produce a lot of borings and the current and sandy sediments are constantly degrading the fossils down there.

 

Let me know if you think my guess is probably correct.

 

Thanks for looking

[Fin Lover]

Sorry, I'm not seeing a whale tooth here.