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laurie

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Hello!  Does anyone happen to know what kind of tooth this is?  We’ve never seen one like this before!  This was found in summerville, SC.  

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Thats a cool tooth, nice find.  It looks pathological can you take a photo of the other side.

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I agree, I think you may have a very interesting pathological shark's tooth there. :)

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A beautiful patho! A rare tooth indeed.

“...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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Here’s the back of it and a closer shot of the front.  What does pathological mean if you do t mind my asking?  We are new at this.  

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9 minutes ago, laurie said:

Here’s the back of it and a closer shot of the front.  What does pathological mean if you do t mind my asking?  We are new at this.  

A pathology is an abnormality in the tooth growth from the norm ... resulting in a deformity or malformation. Sometimes caused by disease , malnutrition, growing in poorly in an odd position, crowding, injury to the area etc... etc ...

 

Nice tooth.

 

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Brett

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One possibility is a tiger shark that one of the shoulder cusps grew very large

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The picture of the lingual side looks like it has serrations, so I am going to through Great White out there.

 

 

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Yeah, I agree with Physogaleus  or Galeocerdo.

“...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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Nice find! And I think it likely comes from a Physogaleus contortus (extinct tiger shark).

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