🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Sharks tooth?

[Detectorist143]

I found this today on a beach in Buffalo NY know for fossil such as horn coral and trilobites. It couldn't be a shark's tooth could it? Any thoughts? Also this rock looked like a bone inside. Fossils are not my strong point. Thanks for the help all.

 

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[pepperj]

Picture of the otherside if you could. I'm thinking a fang.

 

[russau]

Kind of looks like one to me !

 

[Randawg72]

It must be an ancient species. Unless you got freshwater sharks in Lake Erie!..

 

[Blackfoot58]

Im guessing a mammal fang. That rock resembles a coal “clinker”, but I can’t see it well enough to make a claim.

 

[robertk]

Agree that it's a fang, not a shark tooth. The root doesn't look right for a shark tooth. Here's some comparisons.

 

[Red-Coat]

Definitely not a shark tooth and the 'root' doesn't look to be consistent with a tooth of any kind. Some better, sharper pictures might help but, to my eyes, the 'attachment' end looks more consistent with a distal phalanx ('toe' bone)... the core from either a small hoof or claw.

 

[WoodsDigger]

I found this today on a beach in Buffalo NY know for fossil such as horn coral and trilobites. It couldn't be a shark's tooth could it? Any thoughts? Also this rock looked like a bone inside. Fossils are not my strong point. Thanks for the help all.

It looks to me like a worn down Sheepshead or Catfish dorsal ray. Right size but short about 2 inches.

 

[Red-Coat]

It looks to me like a worn down Sheepshead or Catfish dorsal ray. Right size but short about 2 inches.

That would make sense, given it was found on a beach.

I remember years ago, when I worked in the food industry, a consumer complained about a foreign object found in one of our fish products that she was convinced was a cat tooth. It sure looked like one, apart from the root end.

An expert from the National History Museum identified it for us a spine from a thorn-back ray that had likely been thrashing around in the net along with the catch of cod. I can't find a picture of one to show the similarity.

 

[WoodsDigger]

It looks to me like a worn down Sheepshead or Catfish dorsal ray. Right size but short about 2 inches.

Oh yeah , my hunch as I find them here on Lake ontario.

 

[Randawg72]

I'd put my money on an extinct shark tooth. Nothing else comes close..

 

[WoodsDigger]

It looks to me like a worn down Sheepshead or Catfish dorsal ray. Right size but short about 2 inches.

Can you provide a closer view of just the base ? The fish spine bones have holes for nerves and blood supply pretty easy to see and it resembles a joint as those dorsals are flexible.

 

[Detectorist143]

Can you provide a closer view of just the base ? The fish spine bones have holes for nerves and blood supply pretty easy to see and it resembles a joint as those dorsals are flexible.

I will get some close ups for you all when I get home today. I may be as you discribe. Thanks

 

[Detectorist143]

Here are closer images all thanks for the help.

 

[WoodsDigger]

Here are closer images all thanks for the help.

That's it . Pretty sure it's a fish bone.

 

[WoodsDigger]

I found this today on a beach in Buffalo NY know for fossil such as horn coral and trilobites. It couldn't be a shark's tooth could it? Any thoughts? Also this rock looked like a bone inside. Fossils are not my strong point. Thanks for the help all.

Here is one of my bones found on Lake Ontario. Fairly co.mon.