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If it is what I think, it is only the 3rd one of these I have found in 10 years, and all of them have been broken. I found my first in May of 2013 and 2nd in December of 2015. Neither of those finds had any serrations.

Almost everything that I was finding was broken,  broken Mako, broken GW, broken tigers, and many broken Bull shark teeth. I had one good upper hemi....

Here is a photo with a broken Tiger shark tooth. On picking it out of the sieve, I stopped immediately.  Point and serrations like a tiger, but something was odd... Even though I was finding lots of tigers, I have chances of this one being a tiger at 15%...

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Here is the tooth.... and a blow_up of the serrations one one edge... The broken outer edge is .75 inch.  Imagine it would have been 1.2 inch if unbroken.SerrationsSharkTooth4.JPG.37889de0801837546a5451d249b837d4.JPGSerrationsSharkToothMerge.thumb.jpg.e6af73b04bad87c31a5152bd7311d99d.jpg

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9 minutes ago, Al Dente said:

Looks like Galeocerdo to me.

Well, I have been wrong before... many times... It is a path to learning.

 

In 2013, I found this tooth: Part of the identification is the indentation is the blade, slight serrations on outer edge...

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My 2nd find from December , 2015, once again the indentation, no serrations

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Thought I saw the indentation and the relatively straight line from root to tip... Imagination is a tricky thing to deal with.....

Guess I am still waiting for my 3rd Alopias grandis...   Jack

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