Help to identify

[Brownie_r]

Hello, looking for some help identifying what this is...tooth or part of one. 

This is front and back photos

[abyssunder]

Welcome to the Forum!
If there are Hunter-Schreger Bands (HSB) in the enamel, the tooth fragment belongs to a mammalian.

 

excerpt from C. D. Lynch et al. 2010. Hunter-Schreger Band patterns in human tooth enamel. Journal of Anatomy 217, pp106–115

[Fossildude19]

Welcome to the Forum.

 

Where were these found?  Location and size often tell us a great deal in trying to provide identification help.  

Regards,

[Doctor Mud]

9 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

Welcome to the Forum.

 

Where were these found?  Location and size often tell us a great deal in trying to provide identification help.  

Regards,

Yes - would this come from a place that might produce fragments of bone.

 

Or could this be geological? 

There appears to be some banding there but that can also be present in agates and some metamorphic rocks - e.g. growth phases of feldspars.

 

 

[Sagebrush Steve]

8 hours ago, Doctor Mud said:

Yes - would this come from a place that might produce fragments of bone.

 

Or could this be geological? 

There appears to be some banding there but that can also be present in agates and some metamorphic rocks - e.g. growth phases of feldspars.

 

 

I am leaning toward geological on this.  The blackish areas look like mineral impurities extending into the specimen typical of agates or similar stones.

[ynot]

I am in the non fossil camp on this one.

[Brownie_r]

Thanks! I don't recal where exactly I found it, it's been too long. Usually i find items around the river, lake, gravel roads and sand pits... typically in sandy areas.