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I was looking for some advice on what to do with this edestus tooth. How can I tell if there are anymore teeth under the matrix? It looks like the enamel continues on for a bit further but I can’t tell how much further or if there are anymore teeth. I was wondering if there are any experts here that can tell just by looking at it. I want to leave the tooth and jaw in the matrix because I already have a jaw and tooth out of the matrix. Should I try to clean some matrix away from the tooth? if so how far? Or should I leave it as is because I know how fragile these are? thanks for any help.
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Hello everyone, I've had an idea for a while now to write and illustrate a guide on the fossil shark species of SC and how to find their remains. I really am not sure where I would like to begin, but my brainstorming process apparently involves a certain amount of doodling. These pages represent studies for how I might like certain parts of the guide to look, though all text will be typed in the final product. I am looking for any feedback - critique of the artwork, topics you'd like to see covered, additional information, etc., etc. enjoy! Here's a page that started for a mock-up for the specific species Hemipristis serra. I also drew a representation of Isurus desori on the bottom... A page dedicated to Carcharocles/Otodus megalodon (as I imagine him) And a portion of a simple tooth guide (not really sure how to incorporate this yet) - And thats most of what I've got so far. What do ya'll think?
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My friend has had this in his collection for a while now and he always thought it was a Megalodon tooth. I started to slowly dought this and now he and I agree it does not look like a Megalodon tooth. Could it be a chubutensis or a Angustiden? Also I have no information on where it is found. All I know is that he bought it from a market where a seller was selling a few fossils for a reasonable price.
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I went to the Waco Research Area a few days ago and found my first shark tooth and some nice ammonites. I know nothing about shark teeth, any ideas on this one?
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Complete fossil Shark Skeletons: are there any?
MeargleSchmeargl posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
I recently found this image with a shark's jaws preserved. Makes me wonder if a shark's full cartilaginous skeleton has ever been found preserved, knowing that it is rare for cartilage to preserve at all. Has a full shark skeleton ever been found? -
Hi! I was wondering if anyone would be able to help identify a shark tooth I have. I assumed it was a megalodon but it doesn’t look like the others I have. It also feels thicker and a bit heavier than some of the meg teeth of similar size. I hope these pictures are clear enough. If any more are needed let me know and I will take more. thanks in advance for all the help!!
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Hello, I have been collection shark teeth and other coastal fossils for some time now. Only recently have I developed an interest in identifying them all. I have been working through the dichotomous keys, various ID sites, and old fossil forum threads trying to get a feel for general teeth shapes. Below are three teeth that I am having trouble with. They are in fairly poor condition (especially their roots), but I think you all may be able to identified them by general shape. The first one is particularly interesting to me because it is very thick, it feels fat, bulging even on the labial side. These three teeth were collected in Georgia salt marshes (Pleistocene I believe). Thank you!
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Hello all! I'm wondering, if there are any fossil sites in the UK with fossil shark teeth. I know in UK there are tons of places with ammonites, but what about shark teeth? As long as it's shark teeth, I want to find it. But if there's megalodon teeth in UK, I'd spend days looking for one. Any ideas where to find shark teeth in UK? Thanks for all replies!
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Once upon a time there lived a common ancestor of humans and ..... sharks
Kasia posted a topic in Fossil News
This news would explain a very broad smile of ... hmmmm... Julia Roberts*, for instance https://phys.org/news/2018-01-million-year-old-shark-humans-sharks-common.html *Just kidding - I hope there are no Julia Roberts' die-hard fans here....- 2 replies
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Hello all! Hope everyone's years are off to a happy and huntfull start! Well I started the year off spending some Christmas cash on a meglodon tooth. (Having only found fragments myself) any way I was wondering if there is a tie between locations and colors of teeth. I found this beauty at an pass-proof price. It is a beautiful orange/red. At 5 inches almost exactly. The previous owner says it came from the st. Mary's river area of Georgia. (Pretty close to where I was when I got it). I am just curious if this is a common color for other areas or even in the st Mary's area? Thank you all for any input.
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Need some help identifying some shark teeth I acquired. The first two images, the only thing i know about this one is that they were found in Bone Valley This second two images are of a tooth found in an Eocene layer at the Brazos River in Texas brazosfossilfront brazosfossilback The last two images I know nothing about. It just came in a collection I acquired UnknownfrontUnknownback Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.
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Hello, After a lot of research on the internet I could finally not identify these 3 teeth. Actually the first one is a jaw with one tooth. They are 5 mm long, were found near Marseille in Southern France and the age is Burdigalian. The list of shark species found on this outcrop: Carcharhinus, Rhizoprionodon, Isurus, Hemipristis, Charcharocles, Carcharias, Scyliorhinus, Ginglymostoma, Galeocerdo. thank you for your help! PS: sorry for bad quality picture, they are too small
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Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me with the location of this Meg tooth. I know color alone prob won’t give me an exact location but I was hoping someone would be able to narrow it down to a couple locations. Also was $47 a good deal for this tooth? I know the forum doesn’t allow appraisals but I’m not sure if this question is considered a appraisal. If so then please ignore this part. Thanks for any help.
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From the album: Pisces
Unidentified shark vertebra. 15mm. diameter. An extreme rarity for the Middle Jurassic Late Aalenian in the Wutach valley where it was found. -
Hi, I need ID help with six shark teeth found in Morocco. I'm thinking the two in the middle are Otodus, but I'm no expert.
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Hello, here I am again with a second tooth that a friend of mine bought few days ago. It's a quite small one but, for its price, it was a good purchase. The seller described it as belonging to a juvenile Carcharocles Megalodon (Miocene, Florida) but there're some doubts about that. What is your opinion on it? Does it belong to a Carcharocles Megalodon or to another specie (such as a Carcharhinus sp.)? Thanks for all the suggestions. (that's the only photo I have, if another one is needed I'll ask for it)
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Good evening TFF friends. I have found the following fossil few time ago in amakusa, japan. It is a cretaceous formation (santonian) called himenoura formation. It is a small round fossil of only 2 to 3mm. It has a conical shape with kind of regular growth circle. On the picture you cannot see it but it is covered with enamel. It is kind of common fossil in the part of the formation where cretalamna' s tooth are abundant. Could it be a kind of dermal dentical or is it something else? Thank you very much for your help. David From above. There is still some matrix on the upper part but the fossil is perfectly round.
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From the album: South Sulphur River Texas
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Here's a sample of my favorite teeth and artifacts. Most are personal finds from the Northeast Texas area.
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I found this little tooth a few months ago in the Coal Measures (Westphalian A) of Scotland in a fresh/brackish water deposit and thought it might be a Janassa sp. of some sort but now I'm not so sure, the only other Petalodont genus's I'm aware of in the British Coal Measures are Ageleodus and Ctenoptychius but they both have multicuspid crowns, the tooth is in labial view and is 11mm across. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
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Here I am with a new fossil. It's nothing special but where I live sellers usually have only shark teeth from Morocco / North Africa. I'm not an expert in the "shark teeth identification" field and I can only make hypothesis about the specie it belonged to. Suggestions? What are the diagnostic characters that can be observed in it?
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My friend has always had this tooth in his collection that he found in gravel that was in a garden in Paris, it is obviously a shark tooth but we have no clue as to what species it is. And it would be helpful if someone could tell me what species of prehistoric shark it is.
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I found this yesterday, November 26, down at Venice Beach, FL near the fishing Pier, along with an assortment of shark's teeth, coral and other interesting things. It looks like a tooth to me but I didn't think it was a shark tooth. Does anyone know what it is from? Thanks in advance! I'll have to post separate posts for different angles; I guess my files are large.
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Puzzle in poop - Cartilage, denticles or tooth plate in coprolite?
GeschWhat posted a topic in Fossil ID
I have been finding a lot of inclusions in a batch of coprolites from the Smoky Hill Chalk that assumed were bits of cartilage. One of the newer specimens from that batch had a piece of the material in question on the surface; enabling me to view it from the side. They look like little teeth, so now I don't know what I have. I have one other specimen that has a couple of the little tooth-like structures intact (one that I posted a while back that has possible Ptychodus tooth fragments). Is this skin with denticles, cartilage, a skull part or some sort of tooth plate? As always, any help is greatly appreciated.
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