Sw Fla (Manasota) Mix

[aqua]

Three items from June 2013, Manasota Key, FL. What caught my eye was the difference in colors.

Items 1, 2, and 3 from left to right.

Item 1- "Coffee with cream" color. Unsure of what it is, but I love it.

Item 2- Why is this old tooth, the color of a brick? It's color caught my eye- only later did I realize

that it was actually a tooth.

Item 3- I know this is just a broken tooth, but I am not picky at all. The colors and shape

are pleasing.

All the different colors are why I am curious! These items were all found

within a few feet of each other, in the surf at Manasota Key, SW Fla.

Thank you very much for your patience with this newbie.

Go in peace, carry on. ~aqua

Edited October 14, 2013 by aqua

[Cole]

Colors can vary depending on species and on age. But typically its the material it was deposited into that can alter the appearance. Eventually they all wash up to the place you found them, but it doesn't meant that's where its been the last million years. Also, #1 does not appear to be a tooth. I would say it is stone but perhaps a stone artifact.

Cole~

[squalicorax]

I think that number one is a piece of a turtle shell. The third item is a worn Megladon tooth

[aqua]

Thank you for the responses. I have seen turtle shell before- but never such

a pretty, balanced specimen. It looks almost man-made.

My bigger curiousity was the difference in colors.

Never saw a tooth with such deep brick-red coloring.

Wondering WHY it is so red, and not a more standard

fossil color.

thanks!

[truceburner]

I'm not convinced the first or second are teeth at all. More pics?

[aqua]

The first is not a tooth.

The second one is a tooth, just worn to

almost-beyond recognition.

My curiosity is the brick-red color of item 2. As Cole says, it may depend on

where/what kind of sediment it sat in.

I'll try to add another pic of the 2nd item.

thanks!

[Cole]

Another pic would be helpful under better lighting. #2 almost has the color of some rugose coral I have found before.

Cole~