Extraordinary Common Teeth

[isurus90064]

These are some of the other ones, better quality, but a mixture of green, yellow, and red.

page 12, post # 235

page 13, post # 259

page 20, post # 388

[kkborch]

Those Reds are amazing.

[Troodon]

Hey Troodon,

I'm working on displays, but it's still a bit of a work in progress. I'm so picky, I keep starting over on a comprehensive solution. How about you? you display all your stuff?

I'm always curious what other people do, so I can copy them

I have a tall glass display for some of my megs. Then I made cabinets with a fat top that I use for display only on top. Below I have sliders where I put rikers boxes with all my teeth. Works real well. Most people looking at my stuff get overwhelmed and what I have on display works. Takes 13 cabinets to house my teeth. Now the tops also display dinosaur stuff. Real shark lovers, we are on the floor opening the rikers. I can take some pictures if your interested.

[Troodon]

C. auriculatus

Paracas Formation

Peru

Teeth are super lovely but curious about the formation. The Ica locality has Chilcatay correct and what about Paracas?

[kkborch]

Here's a pair of giant Georgia Makos.

3.31" and 3.25"

[kkborch]

My last Mako post.

Here's a 3" Meherrin River Mako. Very tough location to obtain, especially of a tooth this size. 3.01"

[kkborch]

On to the Great White collection. I'll start off slow. Here's a giant UA3 position tooth. This shark had close to 3" UA1 and UA2 teeth.

Cooper River, SC

2.50"

[isurus90064]

Mako monsters ... hey kkborch, very very nice examples!!! Nice surpise coming back here at the end of the day with these teeth posted, thank you!

[eddie]

Very nice teeth! I also love the "red site" teeth. Years ago a friend of mine dove the Meherrin, so I was fortunately able to see some unbelievable teeth... some of which I kick myself for selling. Then again, I don't have enough money to keep them all. Here is one of my favorite megs. It's a hair under 5".

[isurus90064]

Out of this world!!! I knew you had some fantastic red teeth, but this one is as good as it gets, thanks Eddie!!

[Troodon]

Wow

[isurus90064]

Here are some of my STH makos .. The first 2 were posted elsewhere before, so in order to consolidate a bit I'll post them on this thread in the context of a number of other 3"+ makos.

 

First one ~ 3.10" - 7.87cm

 

C. hastalis

"Sharktooth Hill"

~15.5 Ma

Middle Miocene

Roundmountain Silt

Bakersfield

Kern County, CA

 

Roundmountain Silt ages:

~15.5-16.3 Ma - Roundmountain Silt strontium-isotope ages (Olson, 1988)

~14.0-15.5 Ma - Roundmountain Silt Luisian benthic foraminiferal fauna (Barron and Isaacs, 2001; Prothero, 2001)

~15.0-16.0 Ma - Roundmountain Silt Denticulopsis lauta A zone diatoms (Barron, 1981; Barron, in Bartow and McDougall, 1984)

~14.5-16.1 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the Roundmountain Silt (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~15.2-16.0 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the middle section of the Roundmountain Silt that includes the bonebed (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~15.5 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the bonebed itself (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~14.5-16.1 Ma - best correlation for the Roundmountain Silt (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

 

[isurus90064]

#2: ~ 3.11" - 7.90cm

 

C. hastalis

"Sharktooth Hill"

~15.5 Ma

Middle Miocene

Roundmountain Silt

Bakersfield

Kern County, CA

 

Roundmountain Silt ages:

~15.5-16.3 Ma - Roundmountain Silt strontium-isotope ages (Olson, 1988)

~14.0-15.5 Ma - Roundmountain Silt Luisian benthic foraminiferal fauna (Barron and Isaacs, 2001; Prothero, 2001)

~15.0-16.0 Ma - Roundmountain Silt Denticulopsis lauta A zone diatoms (Barron, 1981; Barron, in Bartow and McDougall, 1984)

~14.5-16.1 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the Roundmountain Silt (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~15.2-16.0 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the middle section of the Roundmountain Silt that includes the bonebed (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~15.5 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the bonebed itself (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~14.5-16.1 Ma - best correlation for the Roundmountain Silt (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

 

[isurus90064]

I had this in my gallery and needed to take a new pic, this is the largest hastalis I have from Sharktooth Hill.

 

#3: ~ 3.42" - 8.69cm

 

C. hastalis

"Sharktooth Hill"

~15.5 Ma

Middle Miocene

Roundmountain Silt

Bakersfield

Kern County, CA

 

Roundmountain Silt ages:

~15.5-16.3 Ma - Roundmountain Silt strontium-isotope ages (Olson, 1988)

~14.0-15.5 Ma - Roundmountain Silt Luisian benthic foraminiferal fauna (Barron and Isaacs, 2001; Prothero, 2001)

~15.0-16.0 Ma - Roundmountain Silt Denticulopsis lauta A zone diatoms (Barron, 1981; Barron, in Bartow and McDougall, 1984)

~14.5-16.1 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the Roundmountain Silt (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~15.2-16.0 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the middle section of the Roundmountain Silt that includes the bonebed (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~15.5 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the bonebed itself (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~14.5-16.1 Ma - best correlation for the Roundmountain Silt (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

 

 

[isurus90064]

#4: ~ 3.18" - 8.08cm

 

C. hastalis

"Sharktooth Hill"

~15.5 Ma

Middle Miocene

Roundmountain Silt

Bakersfield

Kern County, CA

 

Roundmountain Silt ages:

~15.5-16.3 Ma - Roundmountain Silt strontium-isotope ages (Olson, 1988)

~14.0-15.5 Ma - Roundmountain Silt Luisian benthic foraminiferal fauna (Barron and Isaacs, 2001; Prothero, 2001)

~15.0-16.0 Ma - Roundmountain Silt Denticulopsis lauta A zone diatoms (Barron, 1981; Barron, in Bartow and McDougall, 1984)

~14.5-16.1 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the Roundmountain Silt (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~15.2-16.0 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the middle section of the Roundmountain Silt that includes the bonebed (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~15.5 Ma - magnetic stratigraphy for the bonebed itself (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

~14.5-16.1 Ma - best correlation for the Roundmountain Silt (Prothero, Sanchez, and Denke, 2008)

 

[isurus90064]

Just leafing through through the last 10 pages or so and you guys are bringing this thread to a new level, fantastic stuff! Great photography too.

[eddie]

Dang, Marcel, you have quite the Bakersfield collection! Those are all killer. I have a small collection of I. planus, but nothing nearly that spectacular.

Here is another "red site" tooth I had to hold on to. It's 2 3/8" C. carcharias

[eddie]

On to the Great White collection. I'll start off slow. Here's a giant UA3 position tooth. This shark had close to 3" UA1 and UA2 teeth.

Cooper River, SC

2.50"

That is an unbelievable GW tooth!

[isurus90064]

Considering the considerable size reduction on intermediates, I second Eddie .... that is a crazy large tooth

That is an unbelievable GW tooth!

[isurus90064]

Cherry great white Eddie! I love how the serrations almost look like they light up in orange, beautiful quality.

[Auspex]

Cherry great white...

I was thinking "mahogany".

Drop. Dead. Gorgeous.

[isurus90064]

Here's a big ugly one, in that it is pretty worn ..

 

Peruvian mako

 

~3.30" - 8.38cm

 

 

[kkborch]

Very nice colors on this St Marys River Great White, 2.80"

[kkborch]

Here's a Venice, FL Great White. Pretty tough to get from this locality and a good size too at 2.65"

[isurus90064]

The colors on the St Marys GW are almost peruvian .. so nice!!

Any GW from Venice is a treasure .. that is an absolute beauty.