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Hi friends,

I didnot post any thing since some time ..it is to hot to go fossil hunting but i went any way and found this large shark tooth it is 4 cm long and 2.5 cm wide at the root >

Can you kindly help me  identify what shark sp.it is  

Thank you, very much.

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Looks like a very worn sand tiger shark tooth to me, but we need the location to know for sure.

Life started in the ocean. And so did my interest in fossils;).

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Are you sure the deposits are Cretaceous tooth looks very much like an Otodus obliquus which has been found in the paleocene deposits of the Aruma Formation.   
 

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I agree with Otodus, sun bleached like nobodies business but Otodus. Kinda looks cool that way. Nice!

“...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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2 hours ago, WhodamanHD said:

sun bleached like nobodies business

I think it is root-etched, rather than sun bleached.

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1 hour ago, Auspex said:

I think it is root-etched, rather than sun bleached.

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It is isn’t it? Must’ve been surrounded by them. 

“...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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Hi and thank you for the informative discussion , after going back to the maps , you are wright the area is at the end of Cretaceous and the beginning of paleocene as you can see in the map ,the find was a surface find in a flat area where i found many fish teeth , i well show you in the near future .

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