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4.5 INCH LARGE MEGALODON SHARK TOOTH WITH MIDNIGHT STORM ENAMEL PATTERNS Suwannee River - Georgia, U.S. MIOCENE to PLIOCENE PERIOD: 23.3 - 1.81 million years ago This fine grade large fossil shark tooth is from the jaws of a huge Megalodon shark! This spectacular specimen is loaded with so many features desired by advanced Megalodon tooth collectors. Teeth like these are getting certainly harder to come by in today's market. Current and increasing future demand will never be satisfied by the dwindling numbers of the truly top grade 10 specimens such as this beauty, hence their constantly increasing prices each year. This large Megalodon tooth is complete with superb enamel that is an unusual pattern of stormy blacks and gray mottling throughout like a bad nightmare. The serrations are crisp with light natural feeding wear. Tip has a small nick from feeding wear but it is very tiny and the serrations run right up to the tip on both edges. Root is deep midnight black with a blushing brown color on one lobe. The root is very dense and is complete and unbroken. Overall condition is of the finest GRADE 10 class. Most megalodon teeth do not possess all these top drawer qualities that this tooth boasts of. This specimen has absolutely NO REPAIR AND NO RESTORATION. Megalodon teeth found in rivers are almost always heavily eroded and worn from the high energy environment in which they were subjected to. They usually have dull, sand-blasted enamel, peeling back from the core. The roots are often damaged. This tooth is amongst THE FINEST Megalodon teeth typically found. While we strictly avoid Megalodon teeth with restoration or repair, Caveat emptor as some Megalodon teeth in many dealers' inventories in the larger sizes and "seemingly" fine qualities have repair or restoration and this is not often disclosed to the buyer accurately either because of ignorance or dishonesty.
4.5" in length on the diagonal edge SOLD SH6-155 INCLUDES DISPLAY BOX Actual Item - One Only |
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At a length of 52 feet
and weighing in excess of 60 tons, Carcharocles megalodon was the second
largest predator that ever existed on this planet, the largest being the
sperm whale. Megalodon was larger and heavier than T. rex.
Scientific reconstructions of this shark estimate the dorsal fin 5.5
feet tall, the pectoral fins at 10 feet in length and the tail over 12
feet high. If you were unfortunate enough to have a megalodon swim
over you, the pectoral fins would measure 30 feet from tip to tip with a
torso in excess of 10 feet thick! The jaws were so large that
this shark would be able to swallow a Rhinoceros whole. A
predator this size would have most likely fed on large marine
vertebrates, especially whales. Fossil teeth have been found in
excess of 7 inches in length! Megalodon teeth are similar in
geometry to the modern White Shark and scientists are still passionately
divided on the origin of the two species and if megalodon is related to
the modern white shark. It is also not fully understood why this
giant killer became extinct but we can all be glad it is. A day at
the beach just wouldn't be what it is today!