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Real Megalodon tooth with no repair or restoration?
Kurvinosaurus posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello! I received my first megalodon tooth today and I just wanted to make sure it looks like it’s a real one. The enamel just seems so smooth and shiny, like it was coated with something. Is that just the way these teeth look? Or is it normal for them to be prepared with a coating? Again, I’m totally new to shark teeth and any info would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! -
These are a few of the nicest/most interesting teeth I've found, and I was wondering if anyone knows about the two on the bottom left. I think the one with the red and orange tip is some sort of mako tooth or a similar species, and from what I could find the one beside it with the round profile could be one of the earliest ancestors of white sharks. The top three I believe are all from megalodons, as well as the really short yellow tooth on the bottom. I think that one is a tooth that was growing inside the jaw or something due to its small size compared to the size of the root. The smaller tooth on the right is one I am unsure of too, looks like a giant snaggletooth but I think it's something else that I don't know about. Also pictured is the nicest tiger shark tooth I've found so far, but the camera has a hard time getting the red and purple in the base of the tooth.
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Hello! new here. I am trying to learn the ropes and have a couple spots. one is a contruction site down in Venice and the other is in up North in Terra Ceia One question is the fossil layer in Manatee County, Bradenton and LWR areas shallow enough for the pits and lakes to get dug to it? i found a place in Terra Ceia that has large chunks of fossil on the beach. Dugong ribs in the mangroves, so far a few broken hemis and small teeth, a tapir tooth and unknown mammal tooth and horse teeth. i assume, possibly wrong, the fossils are being washed in from the shallow hard limeston bottom and sparse coral reef off shore. I drifted out off the shore a bit, found hard bottom and on my first dig got a small meg piece. Its like waste deep water atleast. A. Would meg teeth be offshore mostly even though dugong bones somehow made it? B, how do you screen areas like this with deeper water? Hard to shovel esp with gravel. Should I snorkel it ans look for teeth on top? any help at all would be great! Id even show someone the site for their opinion thanks!
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Megalodon Tooth 100% Natural or Not?
Mulatto_Zack posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Was inquiring to purchasing this tooth but want to make sure this tooth looks 100% natural with no repair and nothing restored on it as claimed by the seller, thanks for the help!- 11 replies
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I have a couple places I have been searching. One in a Mangrove Forest, the others in Construction yards. I am finding some nicely colored Sharks teeth, and one was so encrusted with junk it took hours with several types of sand paper to polish. The very dark brown complete one on the bottom left. It is really a beautiful tooth, but I need to polish it further to get the Enamel a bit less opaque. Any methods for polishing by hand? There are other assorted pieces as well, some nice small black teeth from construction sites, the brown and orange are from the Tannins in the Mangrove Swamps The Brown stuff I find right on the surface in ancient lagoons which have dried up and the wind has blown away the top soil, but its a slog and a hike to get to them! (Or boat/kayak). i have been wondering if I dig and excavate a little if Id find better preserved teeth under the surface. The smal half of a meg that is black next to the quarter I just randomly stuck the shovel in the dirt up higher in the scrub away from the water and it just fell out about 4 inches down. I wish I had a better understanding of where the Fossil Layers are, and how to where to dig a bit better. I had apparently been digging at the construction sites in the wrong spots for months, some older dude saw me and showed me that I need to look in the grey layer, not the yellow sandy layer below it. He didnt have to help me, but I appreciated it none the less! I am not getting skunked usually so thats good. do you guys know of any textbooks that discuss in great detail (academic level) the geology of SW Florida? I have the Mark Rentz books and they give a highschool, surface level detail about fossiling. just wanted to post an update on my fossiling adventures lately!
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Hi, is this real? Recently I've bought a megalodon tooth but I didn't get a authenticity document and I have no experience in fossils. Can you help me please? 10-15 mil years, 12.1 cm, Miocene age
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Goodday Im considering this nice Indonesian Megalodon Tooth, as I got a few in my collection, im looking for one with an authentic root. Sometimes you see these and spot something off immediately , with the color or shape or the root. This one looks quite good. The sellers says its 100% authentic, with only one small fill in the blade blackside. Any shark experts opinions about it? file.mp4
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Do you see red flags in this megalodon tooth?
LordWampa posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello, I am thinking in purchasing this megalodon tooth. As is on the bigger size of megalodon teeth, I wanted to check if some of you can see some red flags. The seller says it comes from Indonesia and it's not reconstructed or repaired. Thanks! -
Maryland girl finds "once-in-a-lifetime" shark tooth from ancient 50-foot megalodon
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Maryland girl finds "once-in-a-lifetime" shark tooth from ancient 50-foot megalodon - CBS News Franz Bernhard- 1 reply
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Greetings! I've been obsessed with fossils since the first time I set foot in our local mall's Nature Company store in the late 90's. So happy to find others who like to hang out with the trilobites and meg teeth while ignoring the Pure Moods CD's and the rain sticks. Not gonna lie, still have Enya on my playlist though.
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In late August, I went fossil hunting in Maryland, near the Calvert Cliffs formation, and found this tooth. I am wondering what type if shark this tooth would have come from. It measures around an inch long.
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Recently, after going to my favorite fossil store, I aquired a Otodus Obliquus vertebrae. It came from a formation in Morocco, and is approximately 54 million years old, from the pliocene. Otodus is an extinct mackerel shark, related to the far larger O. Megalodon. The fossil is approximately 10.5 centimeters or 4.13 inches. I was wondering how large the shark would be relative to this vertebrae (assuming this was the largest vertebrae from the shark.)
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My friend and I took a short trip to Summerville to go creek hunting. Found a lot of frags, and I was very excited about this Angi. My friend found the large Meg frag. Headed back down Jan 1st- 2nd to scout out some new spots. Hoping for some good luck. Seems like it’s been pretty bare lately…
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Aquired a big megalodon tooth who seemed to have certain deformation/pathology to a certain extent. However, it looks like serrations has started to split off in two directions? I'm not familiar with this at all. Anyone who is more familiar with megalodon and shark teeth that can help?
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I arrived at the boat ramp early yesterday morning to find half the parking lot underwater from an abnormally high tide, plus heavy rains 2 days prior. I thought this might make collecting tough but I launched my kayak anyway and headed for the cliffs. I figured there would not be as much beach to collect on but I was not expecting water 2ft deep right up to the cliffs! Whenever I'd find a little spit of sand that I could actually walk on I would pull up my kayak and do some searching. I found a few small teeth this way. Later in the day as the tide started receding and I worked my way further down the cliffs I found a substantial beach that I could actually do some collecting on. I found lots of the usual teeth - tons of carcharinus, a lot of tigers/contortus, and some others. I peeked under a log and found the very rim of a cetacean vertebra buried in the sand, I uncovered it and it turned out to be a hefty specimen, about 4" wide by 2" thick. A little while later I found what was, at the time, the trip maker. It was the tiniest little megalodon tooth I've seen, about the size of a fingernail. Tiny but still, a meg is meg! Toward the end of the day I was working my way back to the kayak when I found a new trip maker. This little cow shark (upper?) tooth was the first complete one I have found and I was happy with it. I didn't want it to end up broken from jostling around with the other teeth in my pocket, so I quickly walked back to the kayak to put it away for safe keeping. As I was quickly walking back from the kayak to return to the spot I found it, I found another cow shark tooth freshly deposited in the surf by a wave. This one was much larger and also in perfect shape and I was so excited to find it. This one is definitely the best find of the day What started out looking like an impossible day turned out to be pretty good. I found 170+ teeth, some with very cool colors (like that cream colored tiger), and a few very nice teeth that I'm happy to add to my collection. Here are a few closeups of some of the nicer teeth, and the whole lot.
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Better late than never right?! I'm finally getting around to sharing my finds from a recent trip up the east coast for work, with a few pitstops along the way! The first two images were from an all day hunt in a creek in Summerville, with Folly Beach Fossils! The third image are my spoils from a solo half a day in GMR... Right by elm street park, because the water was way too high to go further down stream from there, and I didn't have much time! What a great time finding a couple of new species and making a few more friends along the way! I cannot wait to get back up there and hunt again!!!
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This was a trip I made definitely a few years ago to maryland. I did find this megalodon tooth that was almost in perfect shape, but there is a cracked off piece on the top corner of it. I found a few other shark teeth too but thats probably my best find in the collection.
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New member here, although I'm no stranger to the forum through researching past finds! 1st and foremost, this is such an amazing community and happy to finally have the time to hop on board. I've always considered myself a collector of sorts but have been fossil hunting seriously now for about a year. Been to multiple locations here in FL but I spend most of my time surface hunting the Gainesville creeks after rain. My favorite fossils are the ones' I haven't found yet but my favorite fossil finds to date would have to be my 4.1" Chub w/ feeding damage on the root, found amongst a dugong graveyard... followed closely by the little yellow guy in my profile pic (recent find and my first meg w/ zero feeding damage). I love to learn as much as possible about things that peak my interest and fossil hunting has become quite an addiction for me, so naturally I've read just about everything available online... but always hungry for more information. Looking forward to tapping into all of your collective knowledge and potentially making some new fossil hunting friends along the way! PS... I will be up in Greenville, NC & Summerville, SC for work soon and will create another topic in case anyone wants to meet up while I am in the area
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Hey folks! I used to be active on here years ago. Recently I have been traveling the US more and try and check out any fossil bearing spots… just returned from Texas and ran across some ammonites and other stuff I want to I’d. thanks!
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Hi everyone! Im looking for some Nice quality megalodon teeth. I don't mind the location I've got a permafrost complete rare mammoth molar for offer. As wel as a rare collection of belgian megalodon teeth
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Hi, I am not an expert, so I decided to ask for help in this forum. My Dream is to buy real fossils so I found a website with some interesting fossils, a keichosaurus and three Megalodon teeth. Can you help me to recognise if they are real fossils or not? thank you very much!
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I was given this piece by a friend who found it in either Union County or Madison County, Iowa. Gut instinct tells me it might be a Megalodon tooth, but its hard telling not knowing. I am very new to prepping fossils myself, but fortunate enough to have at the least a few of the required tools such as a Chicago pneumatic air scribe, a dremel, and an airbrush sandblaster with aluminum oxide. I have attempted to remove parts of the outer layer covered in rust and shell fragments but have pumped the brakes since I really have no idea if the tooth, assuming thats what it is, will be the same color as the matrix or if it will be distinctly different and very easy to identify once enough matrix has been removed. The rock underneath the rusty layer is a lot harder than I had initially though and is a light to mildly dark gray color. I don't intend to remove all of the matrix, just around the root and part of the enamel. Again I am very new to this so pardon the wildly inaccurate use of everything ( hence the title). Any tips, tricks, info, and guidance on how I should approach prepping this and how to tell fossil from rock is all welcomed and appreciated knowledge. I can provide much better pics as well if need be
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Been at it for about a year now and I try to hit the creeks at least twice/month if I can help it. The "loose" pics are either newer finds that haven't made their way into the display yet, or finds that have their own display. Most of these were rescued from the Gainesville area. Some are from the Peace River & Joshua Creek, as well as Manasota, Caspersen, Venice & Fort Clinch beaches. I was also lucky enough to discover a previously unknown spot VERY close to home, while scouting one day! Dr. Hulbert (w/ UF) confirmed it is a new spot, but was reluctant to check it out as none of my initial finds were extinct species... I have since found horse teeth at that location and can't wait for water levels to go back down!!! Hoping to add a few new species to my collection on my upcoming trip to GMR & one of the Summerville creeks (not sure which one yet but would love to find my first Angi & GW)... the GW in my pics was actually found by my Grandfather in Panama in the 70s! Thanks for looking : )
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