Blade Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Hello everyone. I am new to the forum and hope someone is able to help identify what kind of shark this tooth is from. My wife found it at Holden Beach in NC this past weekend. Her friend found some great white shark teeth as well but I can’t find anything online that looks like this. She also found this sea biscuit/urchin while there. They’ve been dredging to rebuild the beaches and seems like they’ve uncovered a lot of good stuff in doing so. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Tooth looks like a posterior megalodon, possibly. Wait for other responses. @sixgill pete @Al Dente @MarcoSr Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade Posted May 11, 2022 Author Share Posted May 11, 2022 29 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said: Tooth looks like a posterior megalodon, possibly. Wait for other responses. Thanks Fossildude19. Megaladon was the only teeth I found that looked like this but being so small I wasn’t sure if it could be. I know there are a lot of megaladon teeth found on NC beaches. Hoping there’s a lot of good stuff left on the beaches when we go back later this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cck Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Crow not meg 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustdee Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 This is commonly called a crow shark tooth. Yours is a Squalicorax pristodontus and it comes out of the late Cretaceous Peedee formation, about 66 million years old. It is a nice one! 2 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 9 hours ago, Fossildude19 said: Tooth looks like a posterior megalodon, possibly. Wait for other responses. @sixgill pete @Al Dente @MarcoSr I agree that the tooth is a Squalicorax. Marco Sr. 1 "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Squalicorax pristodontus Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Beautiful echinoid too! 1 Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 I like how the Hardouinea mortonis sea biscuit blends in with the granite? counter top. Lots of cretaceous fossils coming up at Holden but the dredge doesn't separate things by age so it's a mixed bag of ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade Posted May 12, 2022 Author Share Posted May 12, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Plax said: I like how the Hardouinea mortonis sea biscuit blends in with the granite? counter top. Lots of cretaceous fossils coming up at Holden but the dredge doesn't separate things by age so it's a mixed bag of ages. Hah yea after I took the pic I thought the same thing. And yea it’s granite countertop. Thanks everyone for the comments. Here’s a couple pics from our friends of a couple teeth they found as well. Pics aren’t great and don’t follow guidelines but thought I’d include them just for additional reference of some of the items recently found. Edited May 12, 2022 by Blade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 the top tooth is a greatwhite likely Pleistocene Bottom tooth is a piece of megalodon. Likely reworked into the Pleistocene Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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