What is this?? *Item found in creek bed*

[booker81]

Horse tooth

 

[Funky Feathers]

It is definitely a fossilized horse tooth. I have several like it. I am an avid fossil collector.

 

[coz74]

Put it under your pillow and see if the tooth fairy stops by.

 

[Fierlin1182]

I like fossils. We once found a rock made of fossilised marine creatures. Must've been on its way to becoming limestone or whatever that rock is before it fell off the cliff.

 

[Gerbil]

Wow! Thanks everyone, for all the guesses and answers!!
I would have never guessed, a fossilized/old horse tooth!

Although, where we are used to be farm land.



coz74: I don't think I'll be putting that anywhere near my pillow!

ray's two cents :

The first thing I thought of too was a tooth

Maybe a scale, from you know?

That to is quite possible......

 

[peepsnbunnies]

I agree, it is a fossilized horse tooth!

Good for you!!! I fossil hunt in a river and have found several. I get sooooo excited when I find 'good stuff'! The most common thing we find is small sharks teeth. We have also found lots of other bone pieces, horse teeth, stingray mouth plate pieces, agatized urchin spines, horse teeth, alligator scutes, fragments of mammoth teeth and more. I will have to dig some out one day and take pics to post.

 

[Fierlin1182]

Quote:
That to is quite possible......

Although each scale might have been about five metres squared in size.

 

[nobodyherebutuschickens]

A dragon scale!!!

 

[Attack Chicken]

Thats awesome! Never found something like that. Just the common fossils and arrowheads here!

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

http://geology.about.com/od/fossilstimeevolution/ig/fossil-pictures/fossil-horse-tooth.htm

Horse teeth are hard to recognize if you've never looked a horse in the mouth