Stealthynimrod Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 (edited) I found this mini tooth in the Miocene Brownie Beach/Bay Front park. It has a large root with very small serrations on the edges of it. I was wondering if this is a posterior megalodon tooth. Would be cool if it was Thank you for replies in advance Edited June 25, 2016 by Stealthynimrod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Better pictures would be helpful in getting an ID. The pics are very blurry. Try taking the pictures from a longer distance then cropping them. They are blurry / out of focus. The tooth is not to small to be a posterior meg. I have several as smaller and a few smaller. It does appear it could be. 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...
Stealthynimrod Posted June 25, 2016 Author Share Posted June 25, 2016 Better pictures would be helpful in getting an ID. The pics are very blurry. Try taking the pictures from a longer distance then cropping them. They are blurry / out of focus. The tooth is not to small to be a posterior meg. I have several as smaller and a few smaller. It does appear it could be. Thanks i will try to take some more pictures. Would be cool if its a meg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealthynimrod Posted June 25, 2016 Author Share Posted June 25, 2016 This is as crisp as i could get it. There are micro serrations all the way around in case its not visible in the photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 it does appear to be. Try taking a picture of the other side of the tooth. The front side, or the labial or lip side. 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...
Stealthynimrod Posted June 25, 2016 Author Share Posted June 25, 2016 Here are some more angles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Those views are great. It also helps to take pics of both sides of the tooth. Sometimes, especially on smaller teeth the front side is the better picture. With these pics, I say yes, it is a small posterior 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...
Stealthynimrod Posted June 25, 2016 Author Share Posted June 25, 2016 Yes!!! My first meg! Thanks for the ID man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Cool find!!! Tony Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrieder79 Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Hey! That's a cool meg. Great find! Luck is the most important skill of a fossil diver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptor Lover Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Congrats! "Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you" Job 12:8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElToro Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 It looks like it has two cusps. Does anyone if that's normal? "That belongs in a museum!" - Indiana Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 The tooth is in the direct lineage of a meg. It is a posterior chubutensis tooth versus megalodon evidenced by the cusplet in addition to the main cusp. Extreme posterior meg/chub teeth can be extremely small even when from fairly large adult sharks. Sometimes juvenile meg teeth can have cusplets but the site that you found the tooth is early Miocene where chubs are found. Marco Sr. 3 "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 June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Yes!!! My first meg! .... You are on your way!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 With that thick root I figured it was likely a meg (and I still lean that way). When I saw the clearer photo with the single side cusp it got me wondering what an extreme posterior Tiger Shark tooth would look like. No great sources of posterior images of either species on the web but I wonder if Tiger might be a possibility? Still think it's likely a meg but that side cusp confuses me--of course we very rarely see megs with any side cusps down in South Florida though Jack (Shellseeker) has turned up a few. Cool tooth. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Beautiful little posterior you've got there! : ) Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Six inch teeth are a dime a dozen. Not everyone can find a meg that small. "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharko69 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Sweet tooth! Congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 The tooth is in the direct lineage of a meg. It is a posterior chubutensis tooth versus megalodon evidenced by the cusplet in addition to the main cusp. Extreme posterior meg/chub teeth can be extremely small even when from fairly large adult sharks. Sometimes juvenile meg teeth can have cusplets but the site that you found the tooth is early Miocene where chubs are found. Marco Sr. Thanks for the info about the site Marc. I change my I.D. to C. chubutensis. 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...
digit Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Six inch teeth are a dime a dozen. Not everyone can find a meg that small. Here's my $1.20 and I'll let you know where to ship the gross of 6" megs. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 [Doing a "Mr. Haney" impression, from the TV show "Green Acres"....] Funny you should mention 6" megs, because my genetics team has just finished cloning the megalodon in that size. The only puzzle left is what color you may like and the style of goldfish bowl to put him in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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