3.2" Unerupted Sperm Whale (Hoplocetus) Tooth Fossil

Size: 3.2" long

Species: Hoplocetus Gervais

Age: 5.333 million to 2.58 years

Location Found: Peace River, Florida, USA

This tooth is unerupted meaning it never erupted from the gums of the whale and was still in the jaw bone when the whale died.

Hoplocetus is an extinct genus of raptorial cetacean of the sperm whale family, Physeteroidea. Remains have been found in the Miocene of Belgium, France, Germany and Malta, the Pliocene of Belgium and France, and the Pleistocene of the United Kingdom and South Carolina.