Featured Old animal tooth ?

This one is mine I have had for more than 15 years now, I was cleaning out my room and found my little bag full of rocks etc. and this. Anyone know what kind of tooth it is and how old etc. ?

Thanks

Billy D. 3

 

Looks like a broken and worn shark tooth

 

Looks like a river pebble to me.

 

I agree with sharks tooth

 

I thought a sharks tooth would have a sharper point than that .. is it a broken tooth then? .. I'm thinking "Jaws" with all those pointy teeth ... Joy.

 

It is a broken fossil shark's tooth,many times you only find pieces of fossils and not the whole tooth or shell.I have a few small shark's teeth and probably a hundred shell fossils from the York river gravel in Virginia.

 

I'm still fooled by what looks like veins of quartz running through it

 

The photos are out of focus and the lighting is bad,fossil teeth can have various textures,colors,etc..... https://www.fossilguy.com/gallery/vert/fish-shark/carcharocles/carcharocles.htm

 

Thank You Hollyblue ... Joy.

 

It looks like a pebble. Nothing about it says shark's tooth (or any other tooth) to me. It's all fairly irrelevant: as a pebble it's worth squat, but as a shark's tooth it's worth squat as well. They are out there in their thousands, well defined, intact, complete, unambiguously shaped, and cheap.

 

That.

When I was a kid (in Florida, you know), you could wander unattended in the sulfur/phosphate mines. A big family treat was to go there on the weekend to target shoot and hunt shark teeth.

Florida is still mining phosphate and still churning up teeth.

Suspect they're less open to the random-unattended-gun-toting-weekend-visitors, though.

 

The world's largest shark's jaw (essentially a collection of fossil teeth).


https://www.livescience.com/14255-shark-jaws-worlds-largest-auction.html

 

Thanks everyone for all your info.