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Hello, Does this meg tooth seem legit? Seller just told me it's a "meg" from central florida. At a glance it seems to be bone valley colors but the coloration and textures look a bit odd to me, especially the white root part which seems a bit like a cast with the holes. The part where the enamel meets the root also seems uneven and possibly painted, though the seller says there is no reconstruction/restoration or painting here. Scale is cm. Thanks.
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One of the newer teeth in my Megalodon tooth collection. I have been collecting Megalodon Teeth for some months. now. The tooth is around 4 8/16 inches big and has some restoration on the root. I love the colors and serrations! Show me your South American megalodon teeth!
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Found on beach in outer banks. 10 inches by 12 inches Any help with id would be appreciated
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I found this in Ocean City NJ, in the ocean under the sand. I think it’s a sharks tooth but I’m not sure, it could be a rock. Any help would be appreciated.
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From the album: Dard’s fossil purchases
6.10in pathologic megalodon tooth from South Carolina. There is slight pathology at the base on the blade on the left edge. My hand for scale -
Upper Paleocene Lamniforms (Mitsukurinidae and Odontaspididae) ID from Chile
terminatordiego posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello to all guys!!!, I would like to ask again for help in the ID of some teeth. I´ve been searching in a local university's museum for teeth of the original strata (Upper Paleocene), and I have found a very interesting set of boxes containing a bunch of different teeth, all labeled as "Scapanorhynchus sp.", maybe existing a missidentification. The question would be if any of you guys can ID the pieces and how to differentiate the Scapanorhynchus sp. from Striatolamia striata or Sylvestrilamia teretidens, the options I´m leaning for the ID of the teeth. I would also like to check if you guys @will stevenson , @MarcoSr or @bthemoose have any info about it. You guys are awesome!! The ruler is a 1mm step grid, and I'll try to order them from anterior to posterior (I am aware that each one can be of different taxa), all of them have a stronger or weaker folded surface in lingual side. Any help or info is welcome, thanks guys!!! and greetings from Chile. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) Finally, this one has the weakest folding:
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Hi there everyone! I recently acquired these fossil shark teeth and was wondering if I could get a definitive identification on them. The top one in the group photo seems to have a cusp on the left side of the root which leads me to believe it’s an Angustiden tooth. The middle one has a very slim shape but no cusp (probably due to damage) so I’m assuming that this one is also Angustiden. Finally, the bottom one has me a bit perplexed. It’s small but is wide and is missing the defining cusps of an Angustiden tooth. Could this one be a Megalodon tooth? Thank you all for your help!
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I wonder if the baby shark song made outside the US, it's been stuck in my head since last night when I found the smaller of the 2 vertebra. Amazing I even spotted it, pretty sure the larger one is shark? Can anyone tell if tiny one is fish or shark? I'm trying to picture something so small, which shark could have babies so small? Could some shark vertebra be from babies still in egg sac? These were found in Eagle Ford, Cretaceous, the dark ruler is in mm.
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Hello! Help please to identify tooth. Height 2,5 mm. Age: Most probably Middle Miocene or from redeposits from Eocene. I found before only Squalus, but this tooth is slightly differ from others. Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!
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Hello! Help please with identification. Height 6,5 mm. Middle Miocene Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!
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Unknown location. Dime for size reference
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Hi everyone! I recently acquired a collection of small fossil shark teeth from Jacksonville, Florida and was looking through all of them in order to identify them. This specific tooth really caught my eye since it didn't really match up with any of the identification resources I was using. From my understanding, megalodon teeth this small are very uncommon as only baby teeth and posterior teeth are this small, but the root, wide broulette, and blade look like they match a megalodon's tooth. Obviously though, this is just wishful thinking. I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could help me identify this tooth and possibly teach me how to identify teeth such as this one. Thank you!
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Decided to go for a hunt yesterday after my Saturday plans were canceled due to two flat tires. The weather report had it as a cold day to start with an expected warm up y midday. When I got to the river at a little before 8:00 am the temperature was 40* F with a light breeze. Got the kayak set to go then donned my wetsuit with a jacket style life preserver over it to block the wind. Even then I also put on a hooded sweatshirt and gloves for the paddle to my hunting site. As I approached the area I planned to search for the day I stopped to take a few photos of the sun rising over the river. The gravel bed I was targeting has been producing some nice fossils. The negative, it stays in the shade most of the day due to overhanging trees along the banks. The river is not really wide at the spot. I shed the sweatshirt as I entered the water and decided I would need to try and keep my upper body as dry as possible due to the water/air temp and the breezy conditions. I think this was a big part of why there were no outstanding finds for the day - couldn't dig as deep as I would have liked. Usually the deeper I go the better the results. Finds for the first few hours were limited to a variety of shark teeth. Some were quite nice but most were small and regular finds. I was also finding a lot of turtle shell. The first interesting thing that came up was a piece of a turtle plastron followed by a ray barb and a small puffer fish mouth plate. Then a partial meg appeared in the screen and I was managing to forget the cold and my numbing fingers. It was getting to be about 12:00 pm and I had been digging for 3 1/2 hours when I really started to feel the cold and decided to take a break to warm up. I had to climb out onto the bank and walk downstream to find a spot where the sun was breaking through the trees. I took off my life jacket, dive boots and socks and hung out in the sun for about 20 minutes to try and warm up. I felt I had warmed up enough to get back to work and with the next screen I came up with what I believe is a cetacean vert - second one found at this spot. As I wasn't coming up with any other great finds I decided the cold and the river had worn me out for the day. After pulling up an armadillo osteoderm I packed it in at about 1:30 pm. I usually stay until at least 3 pm. I think the cold had gotten to me as when I left I neglected to remove my knife from my hip and later found that I had inadvertently pierced the inflatable seat in the kayak - thankfully I didn't jab the kayak! Below are some pictures of the days finds. First some turtle pieces and the vert - Next photo Left side - Cup of misc. shark teeth, Armadillo Osteoderm, Ray barb, Puffer fish mouth plate, Tiger Shark, Extinct tiger shark and lemon shark. Right side - Turtle Plastron, Sand shark, partial Megalodon & Hemis. An overall average day on the river with a bit of a chill in the air! Today I need to patch the seat, lol.
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Can someone help identify the tooth in the right? This is the only picture I have. It's my friends find. Thanks guys!
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Can you guys help me identify this tooth. I originally thought it was a Meg, but someone I showed it to thought it might be something else because of its slight curve. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Large tooth found in Grayson marl, shame the enamel is missing, since root is not all there not positive about ID, Cretolamna? The tiny tooth missing cusp from Eagle Ford and haven't been able to find match but then I'm horrible with teeth.
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I know the bourlette on a shark tooth is the chevron shaped material between the enamel and the root, but what was it actually? Clearly it is not root or enamel, but did it serve a specific purpose? Was it structural? An attachment point for a ligament? A conduit for nutrients into the tooth? That they seem to be only on mega-toothed shark teeth suggests something related to size? Any theories or ideas?
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6+” Meg. Shiny root?
patrickhudson posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
This Indonesian Meg seems a bit too perfect in the root. Am I wrong? thanks for any thoughts he’s saying 6.5” but I would obviously ask for a better measurement than what he sent.
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I've been sorting micro-matrix I collected during my recent trip to Post Oak Creek (Eagle Ford, Turonian stage). Overall I've had great success identifying everything (even what I believe to be a Coniasaurus tooth) but I have run into some difficulties with some small shark teeth. I've tried taking some pictures through my scope although I don't have a mounted camera for it yet. #1. This one is kinda smoothed over so it may be hopeless but the weird roots throw me a bit so I wanted to post it. 3 mm in length. The nutrient groove on this one throws me as it resembles species that wouldn't have it. Also 3 mm in length. Not 100% sure if those are enamel folds or wear. Then these little teeth. I suspect Scyliorhinids based on the lingual shelves and lack of other fits but the sources I've read also suggest that nutrient grooves are generally absent on Scyliorhinids. The one on the left is 2 mm. I suspect these are the same as the first one but are more worn. The one on the right is 1.5 mm. Here's a bad picture trying to show the huge lingual shelf. It's much more massive than it appears in the pictures. This one is standing up on it. These are the best I can do at the moment but I have a mounted scope camera at my workplace so I can try and get better pictures there at some point.
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Hi all. I wanted to share this chub tooth I found towards the end of 2021. From Monmouth, NJ, I think Kirkwood formation. One of my targeted species for the year and was able to find one in about 20 hrs worth of searching.
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Let me know what you guys think!! I would love to get an idea of the time period and what shark it came from! Thanks in advance!
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***Need professional help with Paleogene/Eocene shark teeth identification***
Morte posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello everyone!)) Need help of paleontologists and paleoichthyologists with identification of eocene shark teeth from Russia. I'm not professional, just a fan and rooky, so I choose possible species options for every tooth, according to books and scientific publications which I have. Hope I make right something at least. Be glad and thankful if somebody will help me figure it out)).
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I was recently gifted some micro matrix from Aurora, North Carolina for Christmas and have been looking for tiny goodies. It is in single digit Fahrenheit temperature and it’s too dusty to search inside so can’t look today but I can hopefully receive some shark teeth IDs. There are some other unknowns but I haven’t photographed them yet and will wait to post until I am finished searching. I never knew ruining your neck could be so addictive. if you need more photos, I can get some. 1. Very strange and I have no idea 2. One of the bigger pieces and incomplete. Some sort of mako? 3. This one has quite a sharp curve and thin root. 4. From thin root to wide. Although it’s kind of worn can the large root be identifiable? 5. Strange tooth with wide root. Do these strange roots have to do with tooth position? 6. This one is similar to 5 only with an even wider root. 7. This one almost doesn’t even look like a shark tooth. Rhincodon? 8. The largest (proportionally) strangest root on a shark tooth I have. Looks like some big hair-do. No idea how this tooth would have been any help to the shark. Thank you for any and all help.
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Hi all, I was walking along Bawdsey beach at East Lane. I have walked here many times hoping to find a Megalodon tooth, have I finally been lucky?
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These fossils were in a bag of shark teeth from morroco What are they, they don't look like any kind of shark tooth I've seen before The white pieces don't look like broken root to me Thanks
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