I’m. 99% sure it’s a tooth…

[Jethro355]

Anybody know what flavor?

found on a sand bar in the Mississippi River about 40 miles south of memphis.

I think it might be a bison or horse, buts it’s way bigger than any horse tooth I’ve ever seen. It’s 3” long and a little over an inch across, either way.

side views and distal end.

[Fla.Hillbilly]

Bovine

[LeeRendan]

I agree with Fla.Hillbilly. Bovine tooth. I find those from time to time along the creeks I walk. If you put a lighter to the edge of it, you will get a burning hair like smell.

[Jethro355]

Thank y’all. So probably just a regular cow, not bison?

[Cecilia]

Whoever it belonged to, it is old! Is it fossilized?

[Jethro355]

I’m pretty sure it is, but I’m also not real smart. I have no idea how to tell.

[Cecilia]

Also, check this out:

https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/27658-tooth-id-bison-or-cow/

[Fat]

Look up Horse teeth.

[Cecilia]

[JEBMs]

I sent your pictures to a friend of mine that is a professional archaeologist from Helena that probably looks on the same sand bar you were on and his answer was just 5 words: horse, fossil, from upper jaw

[Cecilia]

😁

[Jethro355]

Thanks bro. I was kinda shocked at the size of it. I’ve had horses for 35 years and none of them have teeth this
big, but none of them are/were prehistoric horses either.
A buddy of mine found a mastodon tooth in NE ark back in the late eighties and it was easily four times this size.

** it’s the first sandbar north of the mouth of the St. Francis on the West Bank. It’s technically part ours, but usually under water. It runs north almost all the way to the Battle Axe boat ramp, Hardin Point is just across the river.

[JEBMs]

We camped on that bar many years ago before I knew about fossils out there. John, that ID’ed your tooth, had a large collection of fossils that I believe he donated to the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis