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My Shark Tooth Collection


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Well, Shark Week has come early this year! 

 

I'm starting to photograph my collection for more "safekeeping" while I'm away, so I figured posting them here would be a good thing to do. Now, I can't really tell any species from another, so I don't really have any ids for any of these guys, but I know many members here would know, so I don't mind if some of you all id them (or correct the ones I do give) :P

 

These first ones are from Aurora, North Carolina, and come from the Miocene epoch. 

 

I think there's some hemis and tiger shark teeth in these, as well as "requiem sharks" (?). 

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And some more. The first is a tiger shark (?), and the last is Megalodon, both from Aurora. 

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Nice teeth! Especially the meg and the hemi! Some of your requiem sharks (carcharinus sp.)are actually negaprion (lemon shark) teeth

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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And now for my pitiful Calvert Cliffs collection, also Miocene. 

 

The only one I recognize in the first is the tiger shark tooth. 

 

Next are both Megalodon. The last one I actually found myself. Originally I thought it was a mako shark, but a ranger was kind enough to ID it for me and said it was a Megalodon, so that was pretty great! 

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This is a tooth I found while walking the beaches of South Carolina. I believe it's Pliocene. 

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4 minutes ago, EMP said:

An unknown shark tooth from the Eocene of Morocco. 

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I'm not great with shark's teeth, but I believe this might be Otodus obliquus.

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Very nice teeth! But Georgia sand tigers are most likely from the Eocene of Morocco, and the other Eocene shark is Otodus obliquus.

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11 hours ago, EMP said:

Originally I thought it was a mako shark, but a ranger was kind enough to ID it for me and said it was a Megalodo

I’m not sure I agree with that ranger, a meg has a bourlette. I’d say it’s a Carcharodon hastilis. Still a nice tooth, and the meg is great!

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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