✅ SOLVED Possibly a tooth?

[alalone1017]

New to Beach hunting. Found this on Venice Beach, Fl. this past weekend.

 

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[artemis moon]

Looks like a fossilized shark's tooth to me.

 

[alalone1017]

Thank you! I thought so too but my husband said I was a little nutty. Its very heavy and thick...It's surely not like any tooth I have found.

 

[unclemac]

your husband is the nut....an obvious fossilized shark tooth....

https://www.google.com/search?q=meg...OAogT82oHABg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=899

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Yep. Shark's tooth.

They come bigger.

 

[bradyboy]

Just my opinion -
your find seems to be cut and polished, too clean to be pulled out of the ocean.
I live near Venice beach and very familiar with the finds
Its the shark tooth capital of the world - I think
Been there and done it
Your picture looks like it was cut and polished, maybe im wrong
A tooth looks like it was more likely found in the local swamps and water ways
every day on Venice beach, there are professional divers that go from the beach and swim WAY out to look for teeth half that size.
certainly looks like something that was bought at a novelty shop, theirs so many on the beach
Brady

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Very cool find.

 

[alalone1017]

Just my opinion -
your find seems to be cut and polished, too clean to be pulled out of the ocean.
I live near Venice beach and very familiar with the finds
Its the shark tooth capital of the world - I think
Been there and done it
Your picture looks like it was cut and polished, maybe im wrong
A tooth looks like it was more likely found in the local swamps and water ways
every day on Venice beach, there are professional divers that go from the beach and swim WAY out to look for teeth half that size.
certainly looks like something that was bought at a novelty shop, theirs so many on the beach
Brady

Thank you for your input Brady...I literally found this in ankle deep water with a sharks tooth digger and screen. As I said...I am new to this so I wouldn't know if something was THAT special or not. I wasn't even sure what it was as I usually find the smaller sharks teeth that I'm sure everyone else enjoys finding down on Venice Beach or Casperson. I kept it because I thought it most definitely looked like a sharks tooth...my husband said it was a rock that had been tumbling around. I was looking on Google and saw the other teeth but the reason I came here is because I wasn't sure. It's smaller than the ones I see on Google, It seems thicker than the ones Ive seen on google..It does not lay flat. So the only way I could see what you are saying to be true, is if someone bought it at a gift shop and threw it in the water...Which I would think to be unlikely.

 

[MuckyBottles]

Just my opinion -
your find seems to be cut and polished, too clean to be pulled out of the ocean.
I live near Venice beach and very familiar with the finds
Its the shark tooth capital of the world - I think
Been there and done it
Your picture looks like it was cut and polished, maybe im wrong
A tooth looks like it was more likely found in the local swamps and water ways
every day on Venice beach, there are professional divers that go from the beach and swim WAY out to look for teeth half that size.
certainly looks like something that was bought at a novelty shop, theirs so many on the beach
Brady

Shark tooth capital of the world for tiny shark teeth, I don't know where "alalone" lives but to me it looks like a small megalodon tooth. I know for a fact that the Delmarva peninsula is a hotbed for prehistoric shark teeth such as megalodon's, because I found them myself, literally sticking out of the clay banks.

 

[alalone1017]

These are the teeth I normally find in the Venice Beach area. On the beach or normally ankle to knee deep...I do not go diving as I do not like the ocean for swimming and such...there are BIG fish in there..This is why I didn't quite know what this object was. It doesn't look like any other tooth I've found. Knowing now from what a few people have said...Maybe it was just a lucky find. By the way... ALL of these teeth were found by me..I live in Orlando but spend one weekend a month in Venice Beach with family

 

[Tigger]

I find that the teeth at Venice are WAY more tumbled/polished than the teeth I find in North Central Florida creeks. I think it is natural, not store bought. Check out anything black you find there, BTW, it's likely to be a fossil of some sort. Do you go creeking in Orlando?