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A few days ago I took a trip to an Eocene/Miocene site in New Jersey with a friend. It was going be a quick trip so we weren't expecting very much. Not long after we started digging my friend scored a nearly complete Otodus aksuaticus. A little while later when I lifted my shovel out of the water I saw a big tooth fully exposed on my shovel. I instantly knew it was one of my biggest Otodus auriculatus teeth from NJ. This tooth measures 2 11/16 as it is and would've been over 3 inches if complete. It is my second largest auriculatus tooth from New Jersey. Despite not expecting too much, this trip ended up being a great one.
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Otodus auriculatus Suwanee River, Florida© © Matthew Brett Rutland
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Carcharocles (Otodus) auriculatus 04
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles (Otodus) auriculatus North Carolina, Castle Hayne fm.© © Matthew Brett Rutland
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River water has been too high lately for me to access my favorite sites so I had to settle for a very small Eocene Castle Hayne outcrop that I can walk to. I wanted to see if the floods from Hurricane Matthew had much effect on the outcrop. On the walk in I found a pretty nice projectile point sitting in the sand. It is a variation of a Guilford stemmed point made out of rhyodacite. This material is almost black when fresh and weathers to green and then almost white. I found a new exposure of Castle Hayne Limestone and the root of a nice sized Otodus auriculatus was poking out. Old exposures got covered up from the floods. The Otodus auriculatus was unusual in that the serrations were very large. The last photo shows a similar sized Castle Hayne auriculatus with much smaller serrations.
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