Massive Miocene Shark Vert

This is a fossil hunting trip report, but also a mystery story. Why? All will become clear soon. I made a few trips to the north Canterbury coastline in the last few weeks. The home of the mighty Tumido crabs. Ive been finding that good concretions are getting harder to find and it takes more effort to find them. You need a good storm to mix things up every now and then. That seems to have happened on one stretch of beach I frequent uncovering 30 crab concretions in

Thanks guys, I felt very lucky to find this bit. I'm a bit sore today. I'm used to walking a lot but not flipping boulders. The rock here is also very hard so trimming is hard work. Just measured the vert and its 16 cm or 6.3 inches in diameter. I would love to find the other half! Its been a dream of mine to find Meg material at this site and this could be it. Only other candidates could be Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) or Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus).