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Identifying rocks, minerals and fossils

Introduction
What is a rock?
What is a mineral?
What is a fossil?
Rock, mineral or 
    fossil?

Rock key
Mineral key
Fossil key
    Plant
    Shell

    Tooth
        Fish tooth
        Fish jaw and 
            teeth

        Unknown 
            tooth


    Scales
    Something else
Helpful books

  
Unknown tooth

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image of a fossilised mammoth molar

Your fossils seems to be some sort of tooth, but not a common fish tooth. It might be worth taking your specimen to a museum to be identified. If you want to do some more research yourself you could investigate the books at your local library or could look at the Virtual Store which features a number of fossil teeth.