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A little help here on this one. I believe it to be a mackerel shark tooth of some kind. It was found with great white teeth after some material from offshore of South Carolina was brought in for a beach renourishment. I have several of approximately the same size.

 

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Jamie

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Or an Otodus.

“...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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I believe there are some Cretaceous formations in the area, which could have yielded an Otodus. @Al Dente

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Mason

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3 hours ago, WhodamanHD said:

I believe there are some Cretaceous formations in the area, which could have yielded an Otodus. @Al Dente

 

Didn't Otodus first appear during the early Paleocene?

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If this is Cretaceous, it is an Archaeolamna, possibly A. kopingensis.

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Just now, The Jersey Devil said:

If this is Cretaceous, it is an Archaeolamna, possibly A. kopingensis.

 

Never mind, didn't look at the size. Too large for that, I agree with Otodus.

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On 9/8/2018 at 10:04 PM, The Jersey Devil said:

 

 

Didn't Otodus first appear during the early Paleocene?

Left one is Paleocene, right one is Maastrictian, Cretaceous, so no

 

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3 hours ago, Paleoc said:

Left one is Paleocene, right one is Maastrictian, Cretaceous, so no

 

Otodus compare300lg008small.jpg

 

Hmm interesting. The one on the right could possibly be a variation of Cretalamna, but it doesn't really look like one with the thick lingual protuberance. I think elasmo says Otodus appeared during the early Paleocene.

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