Is this a Shark Tooth or a Tooth in General???

[treasure777]

Found it at Red ondo Beach!!!

 

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[old digger]

Looks like a canine (dog or coyote) tooth.

 

[A2coins]

looks more like a fang lol you sure its a tooth looks wierd for a tooth

 

[treasure777]

Is it a shark fang/tooth then?

 

[smokeythecat]

I kinda think it's part of a shell frag, and not the civil war kind.

 

[Megalodon]

Its not a recent or fossil shark tooth - sorry!

 

[old digger]

It's one of the teeth behind the long fang tooth. It is used for cutting strips of meat from a carcass.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I'm leaning towards canine tooth as well, either wolf, coyote or dog related.

I just noticed that you found it at Redondo Beach... so maybe it belonged to this guy!
Dave

 

[Older The Better]

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It's one of the teeth behind the long fang tooth. It is used for cutting strips of meat from a carcass.

Nice eyes I was looking at it backwards, a lot of times people think the root is the business end when trying to id teeth, this one is a lot of root not much tooth

 

[Machkin]

Out on a limb here, but I think it might be piece of bone. The grooves look like that is where muscle or tendon would attach and the "tooth" part is maybe some sort of joint/socket. fish maybe but weathered. Is it okay to just throw random thoughts out there?

 

[islamoradamark]

could be some kind of a tooff

 

[Megalodon]

My first impression of the find is that it is an otolith - a bone from the inner ear of a fish. A large one like this is most likely to come from a Sciaenid species aka the drum family. Considering the location, a red drum would be my first guess. There are three bones in the inner ear on each side of the fish's head, called the saggitus, lapillus, and asteriscus. I think you may have a sagittus or lapillus from a red drum.

There are freshwater drum species as well and they also have large otoliths and they are commonly found on beaches after the rest of the fish has decomposed.

I have seen otoliths drilled and made into earrings. They are commonly used in fisheries science to determine the age of the fish. The otolith is dissected out and is either embedded in epoxy and cut, or sanded/ground until a thin cross section can be viewed on a microscope. You can do this with larval fish to look for daily growth rings (I've prepared slides of these and examined them by the hundreds of thousands) or older fish in temperate zones to see annual growth rings - just like tree rings.

 

[SanMan]

Is this a Shark Tooth or a Tooth in General

It's the tooth out of a General,.......

And he was a mean SOB.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

One thing about teeth and bones is that they ALL have holes somewhere so blood vessels and nerves can pass through. Are there such pores on your piece?

Looks like a mollusk type shell fragment from what I see.

 

[GaRebel1861]

I kinda think it's part of a shell frag, and not the civil war kind.

My thoughts as well.

 

[JamieD]

Yep, smokeythecat has it. It’s very likely part of the hinge line of a large bivalve, broken and eroded.

 

[rick67]

Could be from a pig.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

It is a piece of broken shell, probably from a sea otter breaking open a shell.And it has been smoothed by wave action washing it back and forth in the surf.

 

[Terry In Florida]

I agree with the shell logic too, the piece looks to be too thin/flat to be a tooth. You would think it would be more rounded, at least on the bigger end but it doesn't look like it would have a flatter spot on the end of it.

 

[yaxthri]

Piece of shell for sure, tumbled shiny by the waves and sand