Tooth size of modern Great Whites
Hello everybody
So this is a question not directly regarding fossils, but I feel this is nevertheless the right place.
Is there any information on how big the teeth of modern great white sharks can get? For Megalodon there is a great amount of information regarding the size of the teeth. But for modern great whites I only find information about the size of the whole shark.
I would like to make a small display with my 5.64 inch Meg tooth and a modern great wh
I would say that the 39 mm measurement is what Shimada calls for in his equation. Given the uncertainty in the tooth position (an actual shark tooth expert seeing this post may be able to clarify), here is what the equations would seem to tell us:
L1: TL = 5.540 + 14.197 * CH = 559 cm (~5.6 m)
L2: TL = 4.911 + 13.433 * CH = 529 cm (~5.3 m)
L3: TL = 0.464 + 14.550 * CH = 568 cm (~5.7 m)
This range of 5.3-5.7 meters would put the shark that previously owned this r
