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I bought this 4.8” tooth and it was advertised as being likely a giant chubutensis tooth, but said it was a Megalodon to be on the safe side. Can anyone here positively identify it? This was found in a river outside of Summerville, SC.
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Hello! We found both of these teeth in the same spot 6 months apart in Duval County, Florida. We are having trouble identifying whether these teeth are Great Whites or Megalodon. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any input!
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It’s about 1.875 inches long in the longest side,and the seller said it was found in Chandler Bridge Formation. So I guess it’s angustidens?
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Megalodon teeth and shark Vertebrae for trade
mattbsharks posted a topic in Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
These are mostly South Carolina River finds, with a couple of Moroccan specimens mixed in. The Megalodon teeth are all natural, ranging from 3” to the 4” range. The shark vertebra go up to about 3.5” in diameter. I have more elsewhere as well. And more Megalodon teeth. LOOKING FOR: I am open to all offers. I am especially interested in matrix pieces of different kinds, unprepared fish, but again I am very open to all sorts of offers.
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4.7” Indonesian Megalodon tooth up for trade
mattbsharks posted a topic in Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
Up for trade is this beautiful 4.7” Megalodon tooth from Indonesia. It has repairs to cracks along the middle of the blade but no restoration as far as I can tell. There is a very tiny patch of fill on the back side smaller than a dime. I am open to all trade offers. This tooth has some of the best colors you’ll see on a tooth and has razor serrations and tip. It even has some sea shells imbedded in the root
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Hey all... I thought I'd put up some pics of my fossil collection - well, the sharp end of it. I have a few other fossils (fish, ammonite etc) but for now, I'll put up my fossil teeth. I started collecting fossils almost by accident a few years ago, I was in a small rock and mineral shop, in a small town 2 hours from home, this shop had a small selection of fossils too and the Otodus teeth they had in stock grabbed my attention, I bought one and my collection has been growing ever since. The Otodus obliquus teeth below were my first and second fossil purchase
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Megalodon real/restored or fake?
eXistenZ posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Unfortunately, currently only have this picture is the real or restored?
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I bought this Megalodon tooth a while ago, but the shape of it has me wondering if it’s actually a chubutensis tooth Here are two images of the tooth. It’s 4.88 inches from root to tip. It was collected off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina.
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I have been examining my megalodon teeth and even Ramanessin shark teeth and under the microscope I can usually see (presumably) enamel that had been laid down in thin lines that always turn and meet the tooth edges at a 90 degree angle. It is easiest to see in fossil teeth where the mineral coloring brings out these whitish lines. It is hard to see in extant white teeth. Here are 3 photos of what I mean. The horizontal lines are from the middle region of the meg tooth along the tooth axis. The picture with lines going both side-to-side and up-and-down is from the region near the edge. The picture of vertical lines and the edge of the tooth is where the enamel comes to a 90 degree angle with the edge of the tooth. Heck, even my dentist got animated when I explained what I was seeing in shark teeth. Anyway, these white lines would be all but impossible to fake.
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Hello all, I made two drawings (and edited both of them) of a O. Megalodon (Otodus Megalodon) shark. The first one is a pencil drawing (black-white) on a original white background (made it coloured, blue). The second one is a Megalodon smelling whales. Enjoy! Perhaps other people can post here their Megalodon drawings/paintings. Kind regards, Ruben
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Please let me know if you think this tooth has no repairs or restorations? It's being advertised as not. Seems to have none, but please see images. Seems to be a beauty, 5.75 inch upper principal anterior from Indonesia. Thanks in advance.
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Is my megalodon tooth real or fake?
Ghully posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I started collecting megalodon teeth about a year ago and this was my first tooth. Now that I have a few others, I’ve noticed possible discrepancies with the tooth. My other teeth have a grainy, gritty textured root but this one has a smooth textured root with a shiny appearance. The root of this tooth is also very smooth/slippery to the touch, whereas with my other teeth, the root is fairly rough to the touch. Also, where the enamel meets the bourlette, that is also quite smooth but on my other teeth, it is fairly sharp and jagged in comparison. Any advice is appreciated as I’m still fairly new to collecting. Thanks in advance!
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What i know of there is three supposed megalodon teeth found at two different occasions at two different locations in sweden. The first one that i came to know of was when i visited the museum of natural history in gothenburg. In one of the exhibitions i found this some years ago. Roughly translated the label tells that it was found during ploughing of a meadow at Bellskar Nordgard near Backa church, Hisingen. I was quite confused and mailed the museum asking for more information. They asked for a photo of the tooth and after i had sent it they never got back to me with any answer. The fog thickened one day when i came across these in the collections of jonkopings museum: https://digitaltmuseum.se/021028254584/fossil These two were found during construction of a house in Anderstorp, Smaland. They were found separated from each other by 70-80cm at a depth of 95cm. The stratigraphy was made up of 25cm sand followed by a layer of clay. They are both around 10cm wide and 12cm long. The Swedish museum of natural history in Stockholm acknowledges that the find is suspicious based on the location. My conclusion was at first that they were bought and "found" in means for attention. But then again we don't get any information as to when they were found. The ones in Anderstorp were donated in the 70's but they could have been laying around in box for decades before that for all we know. Another idea i had was that they might have been thrown out of a "cabinet of curiosities" but then they shouldn't have been buried in 1m of sediments. As the one in Hisingen was unearthed during ploughing it might have been buried as deep as 30cm. My last idea at the time was that maybe somehow they were transported there in glacial sediments from Gram in Dennmark? Today when writing this post i think i finally stumbled upon the answer to their origins. Jan Johanssons mentions in short the Anderstorp findings as probable "Florida manure" on his website "sveriges fossilmuseum". What this means is not explained, but i guess manure was imported at some point and it contained these teeth and probably other fossils as well by accident. If this manure was used in more locations i would bet that there's more fossils to be found. That's unless they've already been destroyed by ploughs. If there's anyone who know more about this "Florida manure" I would love to learn more.
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Hey all! I have this Meg from the Bone Valley Formation I have a question on. The tooth has some damage to the bourlette up to the blade. Does this look like it’s from a tool or something during fossilization? It appears to me like it’s old damage but I don’t know from what. Any help is appreciated thanks everyone as always!
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Indonesian Meg tooth, any restoration?
TeethCollector posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
This is my first Indonesian meg tooth and I'm wondering if this has any resto or not.. Thanks
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Hubbell (juvenile) megalodon, likely from the East Coast. I don't understand the hype surrounding megalodon, but this one was cool enough for the collection. It has good preservation, and the tip is spalled-off from feeding.-
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Hey guys! I just bought a Meg tooth 6.35 inches long with great enamel and wanted to get your opinion on it! Thanks!
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Hiya everyone. Just got another Megalodon for the collection is there any way to know what individual species or where in the mouth the tooth is from? I recently picked up this meg tooth for the collection it’s my largest complete one as of now any help would be great. I know u can sometimes tell where it’s from by the colour and sometimes where in the mouth the tooth would have been.
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Megalodon Teeth (real or not)
Brokenman2019 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
A few weeks ago one of my brothers surprised me with 2 megalodon teeth as a gift (around 3.5 to 4 inches). I won't go too into detail but he claims to have gotten them for a steal. I have some suspicions that they may not be real but don't know enough to be sure. I would love any feedback on determining if my brother got an amazing deal or unfortunately got scammed. Regardless it's still an awesome gift!
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Megalodon from South Carolina
PingZhou posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I'm trilobite collector and start collecting megalodon teeth. This piece size about 5.2" I'm not sure it is real or fake. It looks shiny. Thanks a million!.thumb.jpg.73784c0895f121bc7ff3f606f1925106.jpg)
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Woah. Is all I have to say to this trip. Finding one of these was going to be a trip maker, but I found 4 complete megalodons. I’m really stoked. Also found some nice hemis, sand tigers, dolphin vertebra, bone, and etc. 3 of the megs were posterior but the fourth was a nice little cream Meg. Just a shame that I couldn’t get 5 today (just kidding). Here’s the haul. Bone frags and verts: small shark teeth: broken shark teeth: Meg and friends: The bay was just perfect. Had the whole beach pretty much to myself the whole day. Going after a storm apparently is the best. Thanks for reading!
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Hey all I came across these 3 shark teeth today and I believe they're all in the Odontidae family. Even though they all have cusplets, the size of these teeth rule out juvenile O. megalodon teeth so they must belong to a shark earlier than O. megalodon and the question I have is, what species? I can have a couple of guesses after looking at a lot of different photos of O. angustidens, O. chubutensis, O. auriculatus (I'm doubting it's O. sokolovi) teeth though google, through dealers etc but I'm also a little confused because some I'd think are one species and they're labeled as another. I do think I've come across something a little special in all 3 of these teeth though, even though their condition is a little rough. Any help pinning down a species would be awesome! Also, are they rare (as far as fossil shark teeth go)? They aren't something I've ever come across for sale anywhere in my country, let alone seen in the flesh but I did recognise their family. Sorry about the quantity of pictures, I'd rather be too thorough to get all the detail possible The last pics is a shark tooth family photo, (I should have added my Palaeocarcharodon teeth) just for the fun of it!
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Hi all. I want to show you this megalodon tooth from Atacama, which I bought at a local fair in Chile. The tooth is not one of the best specimens available in my country, but it was at a fairly cheap price. Although it has a lot of material from the matrix attached, and a good part of the root is missing, I was able to clean it manually as far as I could, and then I will continue with the dremel engraver. What remains of the matrix is very hard, it is like a very compressed sandstone, it is almost like cement, but I will clean it carefully. When I'm ready, I'll upload more photos. In the last two photos you can see that I cleaned it, and part of what remains of the root began to appear
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Dear All, I just wanted to make you all aware, (to my detriment) , some recent experiences I've has with purchasing Megalodon Teeth from Indonesia. This is not a name and shame post, simply my experiences with a 'grey area'. I've purchased many teeth recently and most are 100% A ok. However, the dealers are fully aware of the value realized from 5.5 inch plus teeth and this has resulted in a swathe of monster teeth being offered to the market. Now, I'm an idiot and need no reminding, but I fell for this trick about a month ago. The seller seemed genuine enough and the transaction was carried out Via PayPal, so I had insurance. After purchasing 3 or 4 decent teeth she started to offer me massive 6.5 and sometimes 7 inch teeth that had a ''tiny bit of restoration' to the root. I looked long and hard at the photos and concluded that the blades look ok but the roots likely completely restored. I was happy with this and so took a punt. The 4 teeth arrived and I decided to let Mr. Acetone do his worse. I was interested to see if indeed it was just the roots that had been restored. It became obvious that all these teeth had been manipulated to look a lot bigger than they were - extending the blade length using donor parts. The quality of work is actually pretty impressive. I just wanted to make you all aware. Luckily PayPal had me covered but they begged me to do a "Friends and Family'' transaction. If the price is too good to be true...well... Be careful, they are faking a lot of other fossils, such as crabs too.
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Hello from the (near) bottom of the Pacific ocean, I live in Auckland NZ and have been into dinosaurs since I was a kid (1980's), it wasn't until about 3 years ago I bought my first fossil (Otodus obliquus) from a small rock and mineral shop in a small town 2 hours from home, since then I've collected a number of fossils (mostly shark) from anywhere I can find them. Unfortunately I can't go out and find my own fossils, the area I live in isn't known for fossils.... volcanoes, beaches and bad traffic, yes. Cheers Gareth
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