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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharodon hastalis Savannah, GA© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Various Hunts
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharodon hastalis Atacama Desert, Chile© Matthew Brett Rutland
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Hello Everyone! It's been a minute since I've had the pleasure of finding any fossils worth posting here, but I was lucky enough today to squeeze in a couple hours of hunting. I noticed several sets of footprints around my usual hunting site - others had picked through the material recently. Undeterred, I made my way along the river visually scouring every square inch of exposed grey-brown Oligocene formation and gravel. Im glad I stuck with it because I was rewarded with several nice (albeit small) teeth from the extinct mega-tooth white shark, Carcharocles angustidens as well as a slew of smaller teeth. Then, just as I was ready to start hiking back to the car, I noticed the root of a VERY large mako tooth sticking out of the ground. When I pulled it up I was reminded of the sword in the stone..it just kept going and going. At a little over 2.8" it's one of the largest Isurus desori teeth I've ever personally seen. It's in great condition with exceptional color to boot. Thanks for taking a look and as always... Happy hunting! SOSC
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This broad tooth mako (or broad tooth white shark) is near the max size for its species. It is a massive tooth, that at first glance when found, made me think it was a meg. But just for a moment. Most C. hastalis found are 2" or less. Whether you call this Carcharodon or Cosmopolitodus it is a desirable tooth and is currently thought to be the ancestor of the Great White Shark; Carcharodon carcharias.
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From the album: Mitchu Fossils
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From the album: Chesapeake Fossils
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From the album: Chesapeake Fossils
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There's a debate as to whether or not Great Whites evolved from Makos. There's also enough scientific evidence to suggest they do. See: This tooth can therefore be classified as either Isurus hastalis or Carcharodon hastalis. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isurus_hastalis
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From the album: Calvert Cliffs Maryland 12/10/2016
This is what I believe to be a Mako shark tooth. These aren't as common at the Calvert Cliffs area as tiger shark teeth and this is one of the nicer specimens I have recovered. -
Field collected in 2012.
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Self Collected in the Lee Creek Mine
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Self Collected from the Lee Creek Mine
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Self Collected in the Lee Creel Mine during my very first trip into it.
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From the album: Hollys Fossil Finds
Beautiful Matrix I found along the James River one day! My favorite still! Perfect condition.. Still need help identifying the exact type of shark, or Era...?! -
From the album: Black Friday Creek - South Carolina
Mixed Teeth Chandler Bridge Formation (?) Oligocene - Miocene Era Ladson, South Carolina Found on December 23, 2015© © Iron Rabbit 2015 - 2016
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From the album: Black Friday Creek - South Carolina
Mixed Teeth Chandler Bridge Formation (?) Oligocene - Miocene Era Ladson, South Carolina Found on December 23, 2015© © Iron Rabbit 2015 - 2016
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From the album: Gainesville Creek Finds
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From the album: Weekend at Peace River, Florida and surrounding areas
I found 2 little mako teeth this weekend; both quite pretty even with a bit of root wear. The tooth to the left measures 1⅛" long x ¾" wide and the tooth to the right measures 1" long x ⅝" wide. Peace River area of Florida, Miocene/Pliocene epochs. -
These are some teeth collected off Highway 58 near the town of Santa Margarita. They are late Miocene in age from the Santa Margarita formation. Most are fairly beat up and not easy to find at the site. Lucky to get one in a day of looking. I think they are a Mako species but not sure which one. What do you guys think they are?
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Hi Everyone, Spent a weekend with family and friends last month in a cabin at Westmoreland, overlooking the Potomac River. Probably my best collecting to date - first Meg (posterior)! The first day: conditions were perfect, the water like glass (see photo). We were able to see the bottom down to 1-2 feet and snagged some larger makos (hastalis) and the Meg in this fashion. Second and third days: much windier, colder. Collecting was OK, but not as good as the first day. Thought the framed "Tooth Art" from the visitor's center was pretty cool! Mike
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Went collecting in one of my favorite Miocene localities last week. Didn't find a lot, but did find this interesting shark tooth in situ in the mid-Miocene Choptank formation. Looks like a good match for Isurus escheri, which is generally considered a European species. It even has the small cusplets that European escheri usually have. I have never seen it documented over here in any publications, but there is really no good reason it couldn't cross the Atlantic. I have seen a few others, but they were generally beach found, without good stratigraphic data. I would be curious to see serrated makos that others have found in the Eastern U.S.
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Hello, I wanted to get fellow fossilers thoughts on a mako tooth I found in the Venice boneyard back in 2009 while doing a dive with Florida West Scuba. The mako tooth was broken and encrusted in coralline algae (see 1st pic below). It was my first tooth dive and at the time I was not familiar with coralline algae and did not realize it was a shark tooth. I grabbed it thinking it looked like an arrowhead. When I got back to the boat, Captain Steve asked what I found, and I told him I think I found an arrowhead. He gave me a funny look and asked to see it. He told me it was a mako tooth (Note: the tooth is broken/altered and still measures 2/12 inches), and seemed fairly certain it was manmade into an arrowhead. I even overheard him telling Marie (diving guide on the boat) he really wanted the tooth and she commented that he must have something in the shop he could trade for it. I posted a couple "no so good" pics on a scuba forum, but got some mixed reviews. So I decided to take a couple new pics to see what people here thought about the tooth possibly being made into an arrowhead or maybe a point. Thank you for your thoughts! F.Y.I. I wish I would of left the coralline algae on the tooth, it looked much "cooler" to me.
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