Fabienne Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Hello everyone, I would love see your sharkteeth from Italy and Portugal since they're not that common and I find them so beautiful. Here's my meg from Salento (Italy) Sadly enough, it has a piece cut off on the other side from the sawblade in the quarry. But I still think it's my number one meg. I hope to see lots of beautiful teeth. Grtz, Fabienne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 (edited) It looks great to me! I don't have any teeth from here, so I am intrigued to see some others have too. Edited May 5, 2012 by Kosmoceras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilselachian Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Machine cut or not, that is a very nice meg from a country where few such teeth are found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 The shark tooth is not a meg, if you look closely you can see a cusp " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 The shark tooth is not a meg, if you look closely you can see a cusp C. chubutensis? A lot depends on the age of the formation. If it's Miocene/Pliocene, there are cusped Megs known. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabienne Posted May 5, 2012 Author Share Posted May 5, 2012 The formation is late Miocene. I also thought it was a chubutensis because of the cusp but it appears that only megs come out of this quarry so it probably is a meg with cusps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfin1974 Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 rare either way nice tooth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THobern Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 The formation is late Miocene. I also thought it was a chubutensis because of the cusp but it appears that only megs come out of this quarry so it probably is a meg with cusps. Definetely an angustiden/chubutensis, the cusp is too clearly defined.. Are you sure that it's middle Miocene? All the teeth I've seen from Italy are early Miocene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpaleo Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Man, one heck of a tooth. I am voting for chub/angu though...that cusp is really pronounced. Gotta go get me one of these, Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raff Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 (edited) Some meg teeth from Salento, Italy (Naples, Museum of Paleontology ) Edited May 6, 2012 by Raff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabienne Posted May 6, 2012 Author Share Posted May 6, 2012 I've had this whole discussion before on the Dutch fossil forum. I thought that the tooth was chubutensis or even angustidens because of the side cusp. I even sent an email to Jim Bourdon and his conclusion was, if the formation is Middle Miocene, that the tooth is chrono-species : C.chubutensis and morpho-species : C.angustidens. But a member of the forum who is familiar with the quarry in Salento said that the formation is Late Miocene- Early Pliocene and that only megs come out of this quarry so it has to be a meg with side cusps. I have personally no documentation or info whatsoever about this quarry so I have to trust on someone who does. I couldn't ask the seller because I don't speak Italian but the tooth was also sold to me as being a meg. Anyway, it was not my intention to get a discussion started (although any info about this quarry is always welcome) but to see some beautiful Italian or Portugese megs so keep them coming. Grtz, Fabienne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THobern Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 You can see from the morphology that it is definitely not a meg, therefore it is not late Miocene/Pliocene (I haven't seen any from Italy that are). Perhaps there is an unconformity exposed at the quarry, but that tooth came from the early-Miocene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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