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Hi folks. My turn to ask for ID help. I’m more of a dinosaur tooth and fossil guy. My friend gifted me these fossil shark teeth. Can you take a look and help me with these? I own a couple Meg teeth and other Shark teeth, but these are giving me a little trouble, or I’d like verification. The first two (A) and (B) have a bourlette, but proportionately large serrations like a Great White. Except GW teeth don’t have bourlettes. I believe (C) and (D) May be Carcharocles hastalis. Are they? I believe (E) is a Mako. But what species? Lastly, is (F) Carcharocles angustidens? Sorry, no locality info on any. Thank you all for looking.

Hello all, The following photos are from my most recent trip to Big Brook, NJ. For anyone unfamiliar with Big Brook, it contains late cretaceous fossils (approximately 65 million years old). From my understanding in descriptions of formations, I recovered these from the Mt. Laurel formation. I have made better finds than this, but I wanted to share this due to its recency and the fact that I had found my favorite tooth (so far). The first Image is everything I've found, which includes mackerel (C. appendiculata), goblin, and crow shark teeth (S. pristodontus). I remember at least one S. kaupi, though it is difficult to see the enamel notch in the photo I took. In the lower right corner are an Enchodus petrosus (salmonoid) fang (in rough shape) and an Anomaeodus phasolus (early drum fish) crusher plate. Above the salmon fang are two snail shell casts and a partial cast of a snail shell. The top right corner of the overview has a mammalian tooth, not fossilized. The land in the area was once used as farmland, so that tooth may or may not be related to that. The second picture is a Cretolamna appendiculata tooth (my favorite kind of mackerel shark tooth), and the third a close up of it. The close-up was taken by using a jeweler's loupe to view more detail. The last picture is the snail shell next to a dime for scale. My sources for identification are: Joe Cocke's "Fossil Shark Teeth of the World: A Collector's Guide" (used for the Shark teeth) and NJfossils.net (for cross reference for shark teeth identification, and non-shark fossils). If anyone has any clarifications or corrections for me I am always open to learning. If I have the time I'll do a "year in review post" of some of my best finds to share with everyone. Thanks for viewing. Happy to participate in the community. - Steve

I made a quick video of my trip to Big Brook Preserve in New Jersey. Figured I'd share it here to show everyone. It was a lot of fun and we found a few shark teeth and some other stuff! Link to the Youtube video is below: Hunting for Fossil Shark Teeth- Big Brook Preserve

Wallace fossil hunting at Frankstown, MS video link

Hi everyone, last Friday I went on a fossil hunting trip in S.C. with palmetto fossil excursions, there was a short hike out to the site, it was a beautiful day with an average temp of 85 degrees!!! when we were walking up to the creek area where we were hunting and we found half of what would have been a beautiful 3 1/2 inch meg tooth!!!! less than 15 minutes after that my brother found a massive blade of a mako, less then 10 feet away from the blade of the mako I found a nearly flawless posterior and several other angustidens including one with insane colors, a worn whale vert, an awesome hemi with beautiful colors, and 3 fused shark verts!!! after a short lunch break, me and my brother went to a different spot where I found 2 1 1/2 inch Isurus desori teeth and my brother found a angustiden in matrix, a hastalis and the best desori tooth from the trip all within 7 feet of each other!!!! while our dad was doing the dig tour, he found 2 megs the larger one is a little below the five inch mark, and the shorter one is around 3 1/2 inches!!! overall it was an awesome day!!!!! I’ll post pictures of the best finds alone soon. and there was only one water moccasin spotted!!!

Wich shark species are these 4 teeth?

Hello! I got these 29 teeth for 13$ on a auction:) And i think i see some mako, sand tiger and goblin sharks. I circled all the teeth i believe are makos. Am i correct?

Show me those collections, and how you display them....Really wanna see CBK"s with all those sick Meg ancestors.... Case of tigers and makos from gville.....