Lori LuvsFossils Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Thanks! It's easy when you're doing something you love. AL DENTE, If I ever score one of those chubby little babies, it will probably become my favorite tooth. I've got a few Nurse Shark teeth and Cookie Cutters. I love the tiny teeth as they are harder to find. ISURUS, I was very fortunate cash wise. I've got a friend in the framing business who took good care of me. I sent him 25+/- Megs and a Mammoth tooth in exchange. I think we are both happy. PRK, I hope someone can ID that tooth for you. It's a cutie for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 AHH! Back when I collected this tooth at shark tooth hill (late 60s), I wasn't too impressed. But now that you brought up this thread ------------------- what the heck is it? I'm fairly sure your fossil is a megalodon tooth. Here is one of mine that has a single side cusp like yours but mine is not as pronounced as yours. Mine is from the Yorktown Formation, Lee Creek Mine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilselachian Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 AHH! Back when I collected this tooth at shark tooth hill (late 60s), I wasn't too impressed. But now that you brought up this thread ------------------- what the heck is it? Seeing that the tooth was found at STH, I don't think there are many options other than C. Megalodon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeDOTB Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Here are a couple of my smallest megalodon teeth from my collection next to a penny. Large megalodons are usually what gets posted. But newborn megalodon teeth or very young juvenile teeth are pretty uncommon. Otodus megalodon1.jpgOtodus megalodon1b.jpg Otodus megalodon3.jpgOtodus megalodon3b.jpg Marco Sr. Hello Marco Sr., Question, where were these teeth found? Just curious. Are they Virginia teeth? Or Lee Creek? Not asking specifics, just state if you don't mind. I've seen these infant teeth several times lately and have to keep reminding myself to be careful while micro screening. As I don't really keep carcharinus teeth anymore but I'm sure hadn't previously noticed the differences. Thanks for posting! DO, or do not. There is no try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted October 14, 2014 Author Share Posted October 14, 2014 Hello Marco Sr., Question, where were these teeth found? Just curious. Are they Virginia teeth? Or Lee Creek? Not asking specifics, just state if you don't mind. I've seen these infant teeth several times lately and have to keep reminding myself to be careful while micro screening. As I don't really keep carcharinus teeth anymore but I'm sure hadn't previously noticed the differences. Thanks for posting! I found the teeth that I posted surface collecting in Virginia. My sons and I have a good number of infant teeth on our website phatfossils.com. They were found surface collecting in MD and VA. You might want to keep what look like Dusky and Bull shark teeth for closer examination later, as a really small meg can look very similar. 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...
MikeDOTB Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 I found the teeth that I posted surface collecting in Virginia. My sons and I have a good number of infant teeth on our website phatfossils.com. They were found surface collecting in MD and VA. You might want to keep what look like Dusky and Bull shark teeth for closer examination later, as a really small meg can look very similar. Marco Sr. I guess I don't recall those pictures from your site (which is an awesome site by the way) but you've posted so many awesome fossils on there I'm not surprised I don't recall a couple in particular. I've definitely spent a lot of time going through all your trip reports over the last few years!! But I definitely have to be more careful while hunting now so I don't casually toss one into the Carcharinus pile! Thanks again!! DO, or do not. There is no try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted October 15, 2014 Author Share Posted October 15, 2014 I guess I don't recall those pictures from your site (which is an awesome site by the way) but you've posted so many awesome fossils on there I'm not surprised I don't recall a couple in particular. I've definitely spent a lot of time going through all your trip reports over the last few years!! But I definitely have to be more careful while hunting now so I don't casually toss one into the Carcharinus pile! Thanks again!! Are you looking at all the species posted in the site or just the trip reports? Only my son Mel posts trip reports. My other son Marco Jr. and I don't post trip reports but do add a lot of specimens to the site. For example if you clique on "Browse Fossils" on the left side of the homepage, you will see another drop down menu. If you clique on "Shark", a page will come up showing all the shark species in the site. If you then clique on the picture of "Carcharocles megalodon", the first page of 15 pages of megalodon teeth will come up. This first page will have forty megs from .38" to 1.06". As you clique through the page numbers at the top of each page, new pages will show larger and larger megs. If you mouse over a picture, you will see a larger picture. Marco Sr. "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 October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Guess I will add this little beauty to this thread. Megalodon symphyseal tooth. 1 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...
Al Dente Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Here is a better view of the tooth I posted earlier (post #6). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Eric, that is a really really nice little meg. 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...
Hunt4teeth Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I agree with Don. That is the coolest little Meg/Chub I have seen. That little posterior in post #27 is very nice as well, thanks for sharing. Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted October 16, 2014 Author Share Posted October 16, 2014 Guess I will add this little beauty to this thread. Megalodon symphyseal tooth. Carcharocles megalodon symphyseal 1.JPG Carcharocles megalodon symphyseal 2.JPG Here is a better view of the tooth I posted earlier (post #6). tinymeg.jpg Don & Eric Really nice conditioned teeth. Thank you for posting them. Eric Do you think your tooth is a posterior chub? Marco Sr. "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...
Al Dente Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Don & Eric Really nice conditioned teeth. Thank you for posting them. Eric Do you think your tooth is a posterior chub? Marco Sr. I'm fairly confident it is a chub. This is from the dark Pungo sand from the mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Past Hunter Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 A few from Aurora. 2 "If you choose not to decide. You still have made a choice." - Rush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katZ Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Pretty cute huh? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 @katZ I don't believe that is a meg. It has a nutrient groove. I believe that is a Cacharhinus sp. 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...
katZ Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Thanks! seemed crazy small! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 It's not the size, smaller megs are out there. Look at them all in this post. 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...
ParkExplorer Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 Possible juvenile meg tooth tip? Any input? I found this in ocean swash in North Myrtle Beach, SC. Not sure what shark it could be, but it’s very worn and old. The tip is about the size of a dime. Looks like it could’ve been a decent size to me… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 1 hour ago, ParkExplorer said: Possible juvenile meg tooth tip? Any input? No serrations means less likely Meg versus sharks that lack serrations, like Mako. I am not sure it is shark. Might be Barracuda. 1 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieira Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 A nice little Meg from Portugal 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) Here's a small posterior (maybe even that last one - the commissural tooth) from an oddball site no longer producing as there is a storage locker facility on top of it now. Bobby and a few others will remember the old Lockhart Gulch Road site, Scotts Valley, CA. The late Miocene-age Lower Santa Margarita Sandstone (9-12 million years old) is exposed there and spots around town. Most teeth found are quite water-worn. I have a megalodon that is so worn it looks more like a guitar pick. Anyway, this tooth shows some wear but it's nice for the site. If I stare at it long enough and at the right angle, I swear I see hints of serrations. Some nice teeth came out of there too sometimes. I saw a purple Parotodus from there once. The coolest tooth I ever saw was probably a Palaeoparadoxia premolar with a root that had been bored by mollusks (like little tunnels through it). While digging, another collector told me about a rhino tooth a geologist had found. It was in nice shape too. A friend's brother showed me a beautiful Hemipristis he found. It was about an inch long and only lightly-worn with a patchy white-yellow color. This tooth is about 5/8 inches wide (16mm). Edited December 11, 2021 by siteseer additional note 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Those anteriors from earlier in the thread are tiny. I don't have any megalodon close to that small but I have a couple of great whites that appear to be from newborns. I like this thread because it reminded me of a conversation I had with another collector. Others look for teeth close to 7 inches but we wondered what the smallest meg would look like. He had a posterior slightly smaller than the one I show above. He had a lot of oddball Lee Creek teeth so he might have a tiny anterior somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 8 hours ago, siteseer said: Those anteriors from earlier in the thread are tiny. I don't have any megalodon close to that small but I have a couple of great whites that appear to be from newborns. I like this thread because it reminded me of a conversation I had with another collector. Others look for teeth close to 7 inches but we wondered what the smallest meg would look like. He had a posterior slightly smaller than the one I show above. He had a lot of oddball Lee Creek teeth so he might have a tiny anterior somewhere. Jess I started this thread because I would see megs that were 1 inch or even as large as 1 1/2 inches in slant height being sold as baby/newborn meg teeth on the web. I wanted TFF members to see how small meg teeth could really be. Posterior megs aren't good for judging shark size or age because an adult meg could have had really small posterior teeth, much smaller than the anterior teeth. For me, the anterior meg teeth give you a good feel for how small a baby/newborn meg tooth might have been. The smallest meg anterior tooth that my family has collected is .56 inches slant height, but that tooth might not even be from a newborn meg. Meg symphyseal teeth (I believe some megalodons had them) could be quite small. The .63 inch slant height meg symphyseal tooth in the below picture was probably from a large adult shark. 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...
fossilselachian Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Here is a small meg from Sharktooth Hill along with a small Parotodus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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