Yellowstone River shark?

[Auger tones]

Found this tooth on the Yellowstone River this spring can't tell what it is. And it doesn't seem to be petrified.Any ideas?

 

[flinthunter]

I could be wrong, but it looks like a naturally formed piece of jasper to me.

 

[tamrock]

Boy I don't know. To me it has some looks of a sharks tooth and some of it doesn't look like the tooth of a shark. I'm leaning towards it being a piece bone fragment.

 

[BosnMate]

Looks like the bone inside the hoof of a cloven hoofed animal, perhaps deer, antelope, mountain goat or sheep. On a horse that would be the "coffin bone." The distal phalanx, relates to the last bone in your finger, the bone under your finger nail.

 

[Auger tones]

That's very interesting. That would make sense being in the mountains where we live.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Not like any shark tooth I have ever seen and I have seen a lot of shark's teeth. I think Bosn nailed it..

 

[old digger]

What you have there is the toe bone from a deer, as BostonMate suggested.

 

[BosnMate]

Here's a couple of pictures.
These are deer feet, note the cloven foot, under each of
those pointed hoof walls there is a bone. The pastern bones would be doubled.

This side view shows the bone in the toe, but doesn't show the pastern bones. I know a little about a horses foot, but on cloven hoofed critters I don't know what they
call the bones. On a horse there would be the coffin bone, then the short pastern, long pastern, then the cannon bone and those aren't shown in the diagram of the sheep's foot diagram. On a cloven hoof I think there are 2 short and 2 long pastern bones, and then one cannon bone.

 

[Auger tones]

Wow thank you for all the great information! Now I won't look like a fool bring it into work and saying it's a shark tooth!