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This nice little Auriculatus shark tooth is embedded in crystal white bone,
This is a stunning Auriculatus fossil shark tooth. These teeth are
by nature rarer and to find a great looking tooth such as this one is not so
common.
So here it is a gorgeous Auriculatus Shark tooth. This is a fabulous
root that is a light brown colour with a flat and smooth surface.
This tooth has a cool bourlette with intricate details. The tooth
has two cusps which add to the quality of this fabulous specimen. These cusps
have very small serrations.
The edges of the crown also have very fine serrations. The tip of
the tooth is in near perfect condition with a small nick on the back.
This tooth has been polished with a method similar to that of
polishing diamonds and as a result the tooth shines and reflects in the sun.
This method is performed by high experienced lapidary artists.
This stunning little tooth is not so common and in great condition.
It would be a perfect addition to any collection.
If you love collecting fossils this is a must have.
Don’t miss out on this amazing little specimen; it would be a killer
catch for anyone.
I have measured the tooth
From the left and right slant
And the widest section of the tooth
Being the width.
Right slant= “1.772”, 45.01 mm
Left slant= “1.579”, 40.13 mm
W= “1.469”, 37.30 mm
Yours Faithfully
Snaggle
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Information about the Auriculatus Shark.
C. auriculatus is now extinct and was the first killer shark in the lineage of extinct
Great White Sharks. It considered by some to be the first ancestor of the
massive extinct killer shark - Megalodon. Most noteworthy on the teeth of
the auriculatus shark are the pronounced cusplets
flanking the crown. Fine grade teeth are very rare for this shark species and actually, far
less abundant than most other prehistoric large sharks.
Megalodon;
meaning "big tooth", from Ancient Greek: μέγας megas "big,
mighty" and ὀδoύς (odoús), "tooth"
Not only was
Megalodon the biggest prehistoric shark that ever lived; it was the largest Shark
in history, outweighing both the modern Sharks.
Since
Megalodon is known from thousands of teeth but only a few bones. Over the past
century, people have come up with estimates (based n tooth size) ranging from
40 to 100 feet and weighed as much as 100 tons.
Megalodon
had a diet of whales and other large marine animal.
The reason the teeth fossilized is due to burial and compression.
Fossils are not simply made but require
specific circumstances.
According to science the fossilization process was due to certain environmental
change.
I have no doubt in my mind that all fossils were created by God at the time of
the great flood or what we know as Noahs flood.
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The anatomy of the shark tooth:
The root of a tooth is located at the top ( upper jaw shark tooth) and at the
bottom ( lower jaw shark tooth ) shark tooth. The root has two lobes which are
the far right and left of the root.
Directly under the root is a bourlette, this line divides the root from the crown.
The crown is the majority of the tooth and it is the exposed part of a living
shark and is always coated in enamel, The crown sometimes has fine serrations and
they are lined on its left and right edges, the bottom of the tooth is often
reffered to as the tip.
An upper Shark tooth is more of a triangular shape where as a lower shark tooth
is often thinner with a V shaped root. The principle shark teeth are well shaped
teeth found at the front of a sharks mouth. Posterior teeth can widen in shape
and are found further back in a shark jaw. Sometimes these teeth become
extremely wide and short.