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I've been acquiring Megalodon teeth from different localities over the past weeks. It's an ongoing project. I'm thrilled to share the first bit of my collection! I thank various members for sharing their knowledge of these localities with me. I would like to thank in particular @Praefectus for bouncing ideas, and for offering his thoughts on the legitimacy of almost every one of these; I also thank @gigantoraptor for generously gifting me the Dutch Meg!
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Scientific Name: Carcharocles megalodon Geologic Age: Miocene clay Location: Southern Maryland, USA Date: April 19, 2020 I love searching our creek for interesting finds. Last summer we started discovering large fossilized scallops. Then recently I started finding various shark teeth and ray plates. I was thrilled to reach down and pull up a megalodon from the creek for the first time. It is about 3.5 inches long, slightly longer on the other side. My parents helped me document this find here, it's our first time posting and we think this is the right place for the contest, if not, we are sorry!
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Giant sharks south of Ensenada American fossil hunter returns his finds to Baja By Daniel Powell, San Diego Reader, Sept. 11, 2019 https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2019/sep/11/feature-giant-sharks-south-ensenada/ Yours, Paul H.
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My first meg found summerville sc chandler Bridge Creek 3 inches
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A new publication explores the transition between C. chubtensis and C. megalodon, loss of cusplets Please note the following statement about lineage by some very influential authors: "we do not feel that the transition from angustidens to chubutensis is as marked as suggested by Cappetta (2012), given that the lineage represents a chronospecies with very gradual morphological change through time. As such, we choose to maintain a single genus for all serrated forms, given that they are easily distinguished from Otodus obliquus, and use the genus Carcharocles for subsequent taxa (C. auriculatus through C. megalodon) because the description of Carcharocles by Jordan and Hannibal (1923) precedes that of Megaselachus by Glickman (1964)." Journal of Vert Paleontology https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2018.1546732 The transition between Carcharocles chubutensis and Carcharocles megalodon (Otodontidae, Chondrichthyes): lateral cusplet loss through time Victor J. Perez , Stephen J. Godfrey, Bretton W. Kent, Robert E. Weems & John R. Nance @siteseer
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From the album Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles megalodon Golden Beach, Florida© Matthew Brett Rutland
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Carcharocles megalodon Bone Valley, Florida© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album Summerville, SC Fossil Hunts
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Carcharocles megalodon Bone Valley Florida© Matthew Brett Rutland
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Carcharocles megalodon Venice Beach, Florida© Matthew Brett Rutland
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Carcharocles megalodon Venice Beach, Florida© Matthew Brett Rutland
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Carcharocles megalodon Bone Valley, Florida Bite damage with marks visible ....© Matthew Brett Rutland
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Carcharocles megalodon Bone Valley, FL© Matthew Brett Rutland
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Carcharocles megalodon Bone Valley, FL© Matthew Brett Rutland
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Whoo Boy .. what a Friday ! I decided that this was the day I was gonna pull a Meg out of the water. I even called it with my wife present, and she gave me the same rolled eyes to the ceiling look .. haha. I had dropped in two weeks prior and pulled out 3 fraglodons in the 2-3in range in the same spot so I suspected that there were other large chunks to be had if not a whole tooth. These teeth are from a re-worked layer so in the stream they can take a further beating. On the whole the rains have been pretty steady on and off the past few weeks and the water was murky unfortunately. Making it hard to know where I was searching. The humidity was at a wonderful 98% so I was sweating like a yeti in July but thankfully the mosquitoes were absent. The teeth at this spot were not as small, or well preserved for the most part. A few small verts, mako teeth, more fish teeth than I've ever found, a really worn toothed whale, and about a dozen fragmented angustiden teeth. At this spot I was able to score my most complete angy to date in the water. The cusps intact are rare in the stream bed, I've seen them often pristine but these usually are from diggers that attack the banks or land sites. The meg wasn't deep and I flipped it up off the bottom using a sand flea rake of all things .. must've stepped on it a few times before I found it. I hardly ever use that rake. 5 inches on the slant. It's taken over a year so there was nothing easy about it, just happened to get lucky and read the signs. Cheers, Brett a few of the other finds.
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Carcharocles megalodon ACE River Basin, SC 5.3"© Matthew Brett Rutland
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Carcharocles megalodon ACE River Basin, SC© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album TEETH & JAWS
Occasionally, teeth of the two sharks, Carcharocles megalodon and Carcharodon carcharias, may be confused for one another. Ususally, this is a problem with a worn or otherwise damaged tooth . . . especially where the teeth of the two sharks may be found together, as in Florida's Peace River (C. carcharias teeth are uncommon in the Peace River). Megalodon and the great white shark now are generally believed to be not closely related. (This image is best viewed by clicking on the button on the upper right of this page => "other sizes" => "large".)© Harry Pristis 2015
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