Interesting ''Dolphin tooth'' from South Carolina

[Jaybot]

Not my specimen, but the shape of this dolphin tooth really struck me as interesting.

 

1. Is it a dolphin tooth?

2. If so, what kind? I've never seen any that look like it.

 

Thank you so much!

 

Summerville, SC

15.24 mm long

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dries85]

I would consider seal maybe, given the small ridge where the crown meets the root.

 

 

[Ivaldir]

Agree with possible seal

 

https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/55771-seal-molar/

 

Edit: although these multi-cusped teeth also occured in some toothed-whale species and their predecessors (remember the Basilosaurus teeth). But preference for seal

Edited November 9 by Ivaldir

[Jaybot]

Interesting, I had no idea seal/dolphin/whale teeth were so hard to ID.  Thank you for the replies