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Found this buried in the sand on a man-made dredge island in the middle of the Savannah River. Guy I was with said it was a partial megalodon... what say you all? 

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Wait for the meg experts to pop along, but looks like one to me. 

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100% sure it is, nice!

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3 hours ago, Jazfossilator said:

Sweet find!, even the worn meg chunks are precious to me

This one really isn't very worn either. The break edges look to be sharp. This may have snapped in the dredging process.

If there's one, there's bound to be more. Keep looking. That bid whole one is out there somewhere with your name on it.

 

 

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Definitely a fragalodon. And as @caldigger said a clean new looking break of what would have been a spectacular tooth. I would absolutely keep checking out that dredge spoil island.

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Why is everyone so sure of megalodon? I am by no means a shark tooth expert, but to me, because I am not seeing any bourlette, which is distinctive of the megalodon, I would lean more towards great white (Carcharodon carcharias)... Maybe I'm blind? Or crazy? Or perhaps both? :headscratch:

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4 hours ago, Max-fossils said:

Why is everyone so sure of megalodon? I am by no means a shark tooth expert, but to me, because I am not seeing any bourlette, which is distinctive of the megalodon, I would lean more towards great white (Carcharodon carcharias)... Maybe I'm blind? Or crazy? Or perhaps both? :headscratch:

Way to big for white shark tooth. (maximum size for great white is 3.5 inches.)

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Definitely megladon, although it's not a complete tooth I really like the serrations they are super clean!

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7 hours ago, Max-fossils said:

 

Why is everyone so sure of megalodon?

 

Proportions are also very different, meg is a lot thicker. You can also see the remnant bump where the cusps used to be, rare in GWs, and if present only in juveniles which this would to big for. Root also has more curve in it, GWs have more of just a bar-shaped root.

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23 hours ago, Max-fossils said:

Why is everyone so sure of megalodon? I am by no means a shark tooth expert, but to me, because I am not seeing any bourlette, which is distinctive of the megalodon, I would lean more towards great white (Carcharodon carcharias)... Maybe I'm blind? Or crazy? Or perhaps both? :headscratch:

Good question. How to distinguish Megs from GWs?

Size -- GWs max out at 3 inches, Megs at 7 inches

Bourlette -- gap between enamel & root on Meg; does not exist in GW
Uniformity of Serrations.  Meg every serration like the previous one: GWs seems bumpy and diverse in comparison,

Root -- on a Meg Robust, on a GW not so much

There are likely other differentiators. Jack

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@ynot @WhodamanHD @Shellseeker alright thanks guys. So if I understood this correctly,  the main reason why this tooth here can't be a GW is because of the size. But the bourlette is still invisible to me... So is it possible for a meg to have no  bourlette?

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3 minutes ago, Max-fossils said:

@ynot @WhodamanHD @Shellseeker alright thanks guys. So if I understood this correctly,  the main reason why this tooth here can't be a GW is because of the size. But the bourlette is still invisible to me... So is it possible for a meg to have no  bourlette?

Believe it’s been worn off. Even the juveniles have a little bourlette.

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Just now, WhodamanHD said:

Believe it’s been worn off. Even the juveniles have a little bourlette.

Why would it be worn off if the rest of the tooth doesn't seem to be worn at all?

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Just now, Max-fossils said:

Why would it be worn off if the rest of the tooth doesn't seem to be worn at all?

Well apart from half the tooth, wear can be strangely selective.

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Just now, WhodamanHD said:

Well apart from half the tooth, wear can be strangely selective.

Lol okay

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39 minutes ago, Max-fossils said:

But the bourlette is still invisible to me... So is it possible for a meg to have no  bourlette?

The bourlete is only on the lingual side, the one shown is a labial view.

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4 minutes ago, ynot said:

The bourlete is only on the lingual side, the one shown is a labial view.

There's a picture for each side... and I don't see the bourlette on either.

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5 minutes ago, Max-fossils said:

There's a picture for each side... and I don't see the bourlette on either.

Should have taken a second look. 

There is a bourlette, it is just hard to see because of the shading in the first picture.

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The serrations say meg also. Smaller and more uniform than great white. Also on this tooth you can see where the bourlette had been.

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55 minutes ago, ynot said:

Should have taken a second look. 

There is a bourlette, it is just hard to see because of the shading in the first picture.

 

 

Aaah yeah, now I see it better. Silly me  :doh!:

Thanks Tony btw!

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