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So, I bought this shark tooth, but I don't even know if it is a fossil (the guy who I bought it from said it was a fossil, but idk if I can trust his words). Can someone help me identify if it is a fossil and from which type of shark it is?

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Very grainy pic., but it looks like there may be serrations on it.

Did your seller give you any indication as to where this was from?  Since both lobes of the root are missing it is hard to tell if there were any cusps.

Maybe Carcharodon carcharias ( Great White ), but that is just speculation right now.

 

 

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It is not a Meg, no bourlette..  Strange concretion on it,  maybe marine.  I do not quite "see" the serrations , so Mako is another possibility.

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3 minutes ago, caldigger said:

t may just be a battered edge, but I thought it looked serrated when I first looked at it.

 

Correct,  I was just adding the other choice in the remote case that they are not serrations..  I was wondering if the "shape" was more GW than Mako -- they tend to be pretty close --- Matt, size please

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