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COLLECTOR GRADE SILVERY LUSTROUS 4.8 INCH MEGALODON SHARK TOOTH WITH BEAUTIFUL REFLECTIVE ENAMEL Beaufort - South Carolina, U.S.A. MIOCENE to PLIOCENE PERIOD: 16 - 1.81 million years ago This INVESTMENT GRADE spectacular fossil shark tooth is from the jaws of a huge Megalodon shark! This enormous 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 specimens such as this beauty, hence their constantly increasing prices each year. Megalodon teeth have ALREADY proven their rock-solid value appreciation in price during the last decade when they possess fine preservation and remarkable beauty. Only teeth WITH NO REPAIR AND NO RESTORATION that have these premium features will appreciate in value! This is truly a RARE BEAUTY! The enamel is an incredible silvery sea foam green like the color of the North Atlantic sea on a dark day. Extreme reflective base color with chatoyant hints abound with hints of gold flashing back when turned in bright light. Very crisp serrations are without any detracting gashes or damage into any portion of the blade or tip. This is exactly the kind of tooth that top-end collectors hunt for. It is rare to find teeth of this size and quality in the rivers now. After over 20 years of heavy collecting, most deposits are picked over and "dry" of finding many super teeth of this size now. Enamel is naturally lustrous without being coated, oiled or dipped in any enhancing sealer. Root is complete and dense with a contrasting bourlette, both in black. Excellent serrations and tip with no breakage at the points where they cutting edges meet the root - very rare for a tooth this size. A breath-taking investment-class fossil tooth with 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 and the color is almost always the boring, common black. While we strictly avoid teeth with restoration, Caveat emptor as several Megalodon teeth in dealers' inventories in this size class have SOME repair or restoration.
From the mid-Miocene Period 16 million years ago to the Plio-Pleistocene Period 1.6 million years ago, the ancient seas were terrorized by the largest shark that ever lived, Carcharocles megalodon or simply, Megalodon. It is estimated that Megalodon could have easily reached 60 feet in length and weighed over 52 tons. Some researchers have stated lengths could have attained up to 80 feet! Fossil teeth have been found that exceed 7 inches in length. No one knows exactly what a Megalodon shark looked like but from the shape and structure of the teeth, it is most likely that the appearance was similar to a stocky Great White shark times six! 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 shark 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 somewhat similar in certain featrues to the modern White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias. Scientists are still passionately divided on the origin of the two species and if Megalodon is related to the modern white shark at all. It is also not fully understood why this giant killer became extinct but we can all be glad it is. One plausible theory is that a change in the global climate drove the Megalodon primary food source, whales, to cooler and deeper waters away from shorelines and marine estuaries where this giant shark hunted. As the prey ended, so did the predator that it supported. FINEST GRADE BEAUTIFUL TOOTH IN EVERY WAY - A DENSE AND PERFECT ROOT TOPPED OFF WITH A SEEMINGLY LIQUID-LIKE ENAMEL CROWN 4.85" in length on the diagonal edge $950 SH6-215 INCLUDES DISPLAY BOX Actual Item - One Only |
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