I am so very lucky to have a fossil site 15 minutes from my house. I have been hunting it consistently for 7 months since I first found it. Yesterday a few hours before sunset, I walked a back section I had not been to in a few weeks. It had rained hard since, but there were also footprints everywhere. At first I found a few small frags of megs...which is always a good sign but the material in the area did not look as fossil rich as I hoped it would be. I did not find anything else for a while and then on the way back to my car I found a really massive piece of turtle shell about 3” x 2” and I got that feeling like okay this is a really good sign.. and then I looked up and saw the tip of a meg about a foot away. I sat down and soaked in the image for quite a while before I starting digging it out. And then I dug veryyy slowly exposing the wrinkles on the enamel to my delight the root was there! (Most often at this site the condition is poor but I love all fossils so I keep going back) I think the damage is from feeding? What do you think? It is a gnarly tooth at 4.5”! Day maker for sure.