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Jgonzalez

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It is either a Megalodon OR a Great White. 

The almost complete lack of a bourlette would imply GW,  but the overall shape screams Megalodon.

 

I lean to Megalodon.

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I agree. It could be either, but Megs have been found without bourlettes. On the other hand, I've never seen a Great White shaped like this. I'd go with Meg. 

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3 hours ago, Jgonzalez said:

Can anyone ID this shark tooth? Found in Charleston, SC.

 

2 hours ago, Shellseeker said:

but the overall shape screams Megalodon.

And just to muck with you some more .. in that part of South Carolina in my experience you are more likely to be holding an O. angustidens than a meg. Always with their sometimes -diminutive- cusps broken or worn away. If you hunt the creeks and the beach 9 times out of 10 I come home with broken angustidens. 

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Cheers,

Brett

 

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@Jgonzalez Can you provide close-up pictures of the tooth? It would be helpful to be able to see if side cusps are (were) present on your tooth. 

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Yeah... I agree that it’s a megatoothed shark, as for angy or meg, I can’t say.

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12 minutes ago, Praefectus said:

Can you provide close-up pictures of the tooth? It would be helpful to be able to see if side cusps are (were) present on your tooth. 

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I don’t think there were any other cusps

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@Jgonzalez Personally the shape and condition is something I would associate with an Angy with its ears clipped ... broken conveniently at the edges. Either way you have a mega-toothed shark tooth (Otodus sp.) My trouble in this area was always the abundance of O. angustidens and occam's razor. If I found something worn and beat up I was probably ... holding an Angy because they are so common. 

 

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I cried when I saw this one ... this is my own example. The cusps can be quite small. The morphology can vary so much. 01_Summerville_SC_Angustidens_112017.thumb.jpg.d393d3f13d2a6113628cf11d046e19f5.jpg

 

 

 

Cheers,

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