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Hello, I hope all is well. I'm looking for some help with ID'ing two items I found on North Myrtle Beach (between 13th and 15th avenue's). The city is in the process of building a new drainage system around 18th avenue that extends out into the ocean (kind of looks like a pier). So there a a fair amount of offshore digging going on. I looked around on the web, a few other resources and a book and couldn't come to a conclusion on the ID for these items. One is a sharks tooth (#1 is the front with ruler for size, #2 is the back, #3 is the front a little closer)...I'm thinking maybe Dusky. The other is a bone or possibly turtle (#4 side view, #5 is the back, #6 is the front, and #7 is with a ruler for size). Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated

Hi guys, new member on this forum, would like to ask that are these crow shark and serratolamna shark tooth fossils real, they are really cheap

Found this tooth on Holden Beach, NC last night. Was wondering if it’s even real and if so, what it’s from? Thanks!

I’m still fairly new to shark teeth hunting/ID (started a couple of years ago). I think this is a shark tooth, but I’m not 100% because it’s hollow/missing root. However, I’ve read a few other threads on here about hollow shark teeth, so I understand it is possible. Assuming this is one, I’m curious if anyone can help me ID it? (And of course, if you think it’s not, please let me know too) I found it today near Swansboro, NC. My identification book makes me think maybe Mako, but it also says those are pretty rare in NC. Thoughts? ps- I’m new here, so please be kind, but let me know if I’ve made any mistakes with forum rules/etiquette. Thanks so much!

Is this tooth real with no restorations and is it a good piece to collect ?

Hello! I’d love to know if this is a shark tooth. It was found on Dauphin Island in Alabama. I’ve looked at several pics and can’t decide if it’s real or not. Thanks for all of your help!

Greetings all! New to this and want to ID a shark tooth found near Carolina Beach, NC, USA. I always have my eyes out for shark teeth; while surf fishing with my son, I noticed one on the beach. I was skeptical due to an apparent "drilled" whole, however I have read about species of clam that drill holes in teeth...I'll send pics! Closest match I've seen as an amateur at best is extinct Mako. I'd love other thoughts as to the validity of the tooth. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The tooth itself is smooth and heavy for it's size. I very well could have found a broken necklace and am an idot for entertaining this, but the color, texture, and everything about the tooth seems real so I'd love another opinion! Any questions that may be helpful, please ask! Thanks and happy hunting. Bryan R.

These came from a Cretaceous site in Mississippi. One looks like it could be Scapanorhynchus and the other looks like Cretoxyrhina, am I correct?

Found this while swimming in Pensacola Florida. Is it a fossil?

Heres a fun thread for those to show off their widest and fattest looking megalodon teeth fossils in thier collections. I'll set the tone with the widest fat boy in my collection, I don't have digital calipers but it measure roughly 5.4 inches wide by 6.1 inches long. When I close my hand together it looks even more monstrous. Share yours and join the wide boyclub Got the idea while thinking about what the widest megalodon tooth ever found measures, if anyone does know do share in this thread!

These are some bits of coral and a shark tooth I found on the beach at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, this morning. Obviously there's not much geologic context, so I don't expect much, but can anyone tell me more specifically what they are? Or how old they are (are they even actually fossils?)? The scale bar in the shark tooth photo is about a centimeter.

Processing some micro-matrix from a creek here in Florida and I've come across a number of tiny chondrichthyan (assuming shark) teeth that are rather odd and defy my efforts to classify them (not really all that difficult). You can see from this gallery of 9 teeth that they tend to have fairly thick wide roots (when they are not eroded away). The enameled crown is wide at the base and has a single cusp that is curved becoming nearly parallel to the root base. Often, these oddly shaped smaller teeth end up being odd symphyseal (or parasymphyseal) teeth of a more common species since teeth in this position are often quite different from the others surrounding it. That might be the case here or this might be a "normal" tooth from some less common species. You'll notice from the scale that these teeth are all 2-3 mm in various dimensions so they are really micros. I spent some time today photographing this group from a few angles to send out to several places with hopes that someone recognizes this. Anybody here ever encounter something like this while picking micro-matrix? Would love to be able to put an ID to these little oddities. Cheers. -Ken

I've got this unusual shark tooth from a Florida creek that has side cusps. At just over a centimeter in length it is way to small to consider any of the megalodon ancestors with side cusps. Also, no real serrations apparent on this tooth though it is a bit water worn. The root doesn't really look right for a Sand Tiger Shark (Carcharias taurus) tooth (not even one of the more blade-like posterior teeth). Those have very thick bulbous roots that still show some of the U-shape of the anterior teeth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carcharias_taurus_teeth.jpg Richard Hulbert identified somewhat similar specimens from the Miocene Montbrook site as Carcharoides catticus. This is not a very commonly encountered species and I'm wondering if those here on the forum with more experience with this taxon might comment on the viability of this tentative identification. Looking to learn more about this unusual and enigmatic genus and any thoughts for a probable identity for this little specimen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcharoides https://www.google.com/search?q="carcharoides+catticus"&tbm=isch Cheers. -Ken

I just bought this megalodon tooth online, and I was wondering if someone could help me out and see if it’s real. My main concern are these notches/dents on the sides of the tooth (close to the root). It kind of makes it seem like it’s been molded. I’m not sure if this is natural or not.

Purchased on Etsy as a angustiden…but I now believe it might be a subariculatus. South Carolina origin. Thoughts?

As promised, my second trip report covering my day trip last October to the two most famous Pennsylvanian-aged fossil locales in Texas is here! That same Saturday after visiting Mineral Wells and finally finding my first trilobites I made the hour drive north to Lake Jacksboro. For those who don't know, the Lost Creek Dam on the southeastern side of Lake Jacksboro was constructed from earth dug out of a borrow pit a short walk away. As the lake and its dam happen to sit on top of the Finis Shale Member of the Graham Formation (although there is debate that , which dates back to the Late Pennsylvanian (or the Late Carboniferous for any international fossil hunters), the digging of the pit exposed a multitude of fossils that are still regularly being eroded out after every rain today. It's one of my favorite sites I've ever visited for the incredible diversity of the fossil species on display and the extreme ease with which someone willing to sit down on the shale can find them. Having just visited Mineral Wells, the variety of brachiopods, bryozoans, gastropods, bivalves, nautiloids, and corals was a welcome respite from the endless landscape of crinoid columnals I had just walked all over in my search for trilobites. Making my way across the dam and walking up to the expose shale slopes of the borrow pit, I was instantly greeted with the equivalent of an all-you-can-eat buffet for fossils. Everywhere I looked I saw something new. Right away I found a tripmaker: a huge shiny blue conulariid. It was complete too which was nice considering every one I had found on my first trip had been a broken fragment barely two centimeters across that I could only identify because of their ridged texture. Similar in appearance to modern day sea anemones when they were alive, there's nothing really like conulariids around today so I really enjoy finding such strange animals. Immediately following the conulariid was a second tripmaker: my first complete goniatite! Although small and lacking the ornate sutures that some species possess, I was just happy to finally find one that was complete. Broken fragments of other coiled nautiloids litter the shale slopes and I can only guess that there must be an incredibly short window to find one whole after it erodes out before it is destroyed. My guess is this one is Schistoceras. On the heels of one nautiloid find came another. I saw another mistakable coiled shell on the top of one of the slopes. Although it was flattened, I wasn't too upset. This specific specimen is most likely Domatoceras sculptile. Next up was a change of pace, with the largest brachiopod I've ever personally come across. The pedicle valve was speckled with stout but tiny spines and the shell material was partially stained a pinkish-orange in places which made a nice find even nicer. Identifying it wasn't hard as only one brachiopod at the site gets this large, Linoproductus. It was after finding the Linoproductus that I returned to the tops of the shale slopes. I had heard that the strata exposed here were the likeliest to produce the one type of fossil I was holding my breath hoping I might find. As everybody knows, my fossil interests lie with vertebrates first and foremost. I had never found one of the teeth that are colloquially said to have come from Pennsylvanian sharks but that actually come from a strange family of extinct cartilaginous fish called the Petalodontiformes. They would have cut an unusual figure during the Pennsylvanian with their buck-toothed grins featuring teeth that weren't sharp or even particularly hard like almost all fish and shark teeth that have evolved since. Fortunately I was in luck that day and the extra attention I had been paying to anything with a white enamel-ish look to it worked out. The tooth was missing the fragile root, which was expected, and about half of the blade, but I didn't care - I had found the oldest vertebrate fossil of my fossil hunting career! (Unfortunately I don't have any in-situ picture as I was too excited when I first saw the tooth to remember to take one. ) A couple paces in a different direction along the top of the outcrop and I had found a second tooth - this one possessing most of the blade but still no root. There was some matrix encasing the very tip that I later cleaned off when I returned home. Here are the two teeth side by side: Plus a picture of the smaller tooth once it was prepped: I tentatively identified these as either Petalodus ohioensis or Petalodus seratodus, but the in-and-out curving edges of the teeth don't perfectly match pictures I've seen online. I can only guess that this is just variation depending on the tooth's position in the mouth, or there might be a species of Petalodus at Jacksboro that just hasn't been noted yet. The sun was starting to go down by this point and I decided it was time to make my way back across the dam and to my waiting car. But as luck would have it there was one final surprise in store for me. Piled at the bottom of the slope were several huge chunks of nautiloid shell, arranged almost as if someone had visited the site before me and picked them up, before eventually deciding they weren't worth the trouble on their way out and dumping them on the ground. That there were two different species present seemed to support this. The two large chunks towards the top of the photo are from the grypoceratid nautiloid Domatoceras sculptile, absolutely the largest variety of coiled nautiloid you can find at Jacksboro. The smaller chunk with the bumps along the rim is a different nautiloid, Metacoceras. Here are some additional pictures of the Domatoceras chunks: And that was it for my Pennsylvanian day trip! Just a couple of weeks before I had put together a bucket list of all the different types of fossils I most want to find, and I was very happy that after this trip I was able to cross my first trilobite, a complete goniatite, and a Petalodus tooth off the list. A return trip is definitely in order! The day's best finds: Top: Petalodus ohioensis/seratodus Top Row: Parajuresania sp. (2 individuals), Unknown, Linoproductus sp., Domatoceras sculptile Bottom Row: Astartella concentrica, Condrathyris perplexa, Composita ovata (2 individuals), Schistoceras sp., Conularia crustula - Graham

Is this shark tooth Benedini or Mako? I found this tooth on the beach, north Florida area. The back of the tooth has mineral/rock buildup that I haven't removed yet (and not sure how I would remove it)

I'm looking to buy this Great White Shark Tooth and I just wanna make sure its real. If someone could help me out I would super appreciated it.

Hey everyone, just joined the forum to ask for opinions on this item. I was out on my Native American Reservation in Parker, Arizona and walking along the beach of the Colorado River outside of our Casino. I stopped to find some cool stones in the water and came across this thing that I immediately thought resembled a shark tooth. I’m no expert, but things like this tend to pop up out in Arizona. I reached out to a department at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, seeing as they are only a 20 minute drive from where I live, but I haven’t heard back from them yet. Any thoughts?

We don't get a lot of shark teeth in Corolla NC. So far we have a juvenile great white, sand tigers, lemon and bull. Can you help me identify the one I found this weekend? Is it a bull shark? Also, what causes the beautiful rust colored tip? Thanks, everyone!

Sunday morning we went to Stratford Hall to do a fossil hunt with the Natural History Society of Maryland. The weather was not on board with the idea lol. It was barely above freezing and quite windy. Also tip for everyone if you buy waterproof winter gloves from Amazon double check they are waterproof. 3 out of our 4 pairs were, my oldest son's gloves were leaking at the fingertips. Also it turned out our hand warmer packs wouldn't activate when we opened them. Even though we didn't stick it out long we did find a pair of worn shark teeth and a pair of ray teeth pieces. After we got dried and warmed back up we made our way up the road a short drive to visit the birthplace of George Washington. We plan to go back down sometime when the weather will be more conducive to get in the water A few pictures from our visit, note the white caps on the river. From the parking lot above the cliffs Our meager finds