My Shark Tooth Collection

[Sharks of SC]

Hello Everyone,

I've been working to fill this antique machinist's tool box with my shark tooth collection for a little over a year, and it's finally shaping up nicely. Most of the teeth and fossils are self-collected and most of them are from the area around Charleston, SC. 

Hopefully I'll need a larger cabinet a year from now. 

Thanks for having a look! 

The case itself - 

 

The broken/B-grade teeth- 

 

Misc. fossils (non-shark) - 

 

Carcharocles angustidens, Isurus hastalis, Isurus desori, Isurus retroflexus - 

 

Alopias and Parotodus - 

 

Hemipristis and Carcharodon carcharias - 

 

Larger angustidens & Carcharocles megalodon / Teeth from other locations- 

 

Pathologies, oddities, juvenile/posterior angustidens & megalodon - 

 

Large angustidens & megalodon - 

 

[Sharks of SC]

And here's my very little glass display case. Misc. fossils, teeth, and artifact - 

 

And that's about the extent of the displayed material that I've found to date. Thanks for looking!! '

 

 

SOSC

[brad hinkelman]

awesome collection!!

[Peace river rat]

Are you trying to give me fossil envy? If so, your doing a great job!

 

You can charge admission soon to view them!

[Fossildude19]

Very nice! 

[Darktooth]

All I can say is WOW!

[digit]

Great collection--looks like the result of a large number of hours out in the field collecting.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[JohnBrian]

[Ropterus]

Nice Collection! I have an old machinists tool box similar to yours that I got from my dad. Now I know what to do with it!

[CBOB]

Very nice collection!  I'm sure lots of fun hours hunting to acquire all those goodies!  Lots of great stuff!

[ynot]

Very nice collection!

Neat way to display it too.

Tony

[Gizmo]

Very nice! The Threshers are great! 

[Nimravis]

SOSC,

 

I have the the same case and its companion bottom part- found them about 25 years ago in an alley in Chicago. I also use them for fossil storage.

 

[keithmegalodon]

Really cool Megalodon you have there!!  

[Vieira]

Fantastic collection

 

Thanks for sharing.

[sharko69]

Unbelievable!! Those are amazing. How much is admission?

[Ludwigia]

Very nice collection!

[Jeffrey P]

A very impressive collection. Congratulations. Nice to have them in a place where they're easily accessible. Looks like you will be needing a new cabinet before long. Not much room left in that one. Thanks for sharing.

[RJB]

Im not much of a tooth guy even though ive got quite a few, but I love the tool box idea!  

 

RB

[jcbshark]

That's an awesome collection you have there, thanks for sharing 

[sixgill pete]

Very nice collection and a great idea for re-using an old tool box. 

 

But what is really disheartening is the fact that a tool box that was commonly used when I was in my 20's is now considered an antique; yikes!!!!!!   

[endorph1n]

Oh my!!!  Awesome collection!  I'm curious, do you know what that vertebral body belongs to in your misc fossils pic?  (Top L corner of the pic). 

[mattbsharks]

Wow am I jealous! Those all look incredible. I'd say time well spent!

[Sharks of SC]

On 6/10/2017 at 10:23 PM, endorph1n said:

Oh my!!!  Awesome collection!  I'm curious, do you know what that vertebral body belongs to in your misc fossils pic?  (Top L corner of the pic). 

Its some sort of odontocete vertebra. That specimen was collected in the Edisto River, so likely Oligocene in age. But as with any good river deposit, it could've easily washed out from a more recent layer and been redeposited. 

[mattbsharks]

If you don't mind me asking, how big is your biggest hemi? The ones in the drawer looked absolutely giant!