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Hello and welcome!
This
is a very large, stocky and sharp shaped fossil Megalodon Shark tooth.
The
root has pointed lobes, a nice lumped brown surface and it is also rather
thick.
The tooth has a nice bourlette that is not well defined but looks very cool.
The majority of the crown is polished bringing out a dark brown to black
dentin, the perimeter edge has a broken line of natural grey enamel.
The back of the tooth is worth noting and looks impressive.
The entire fossil is concaved with fine crown edges and tip.
This is a wicked looing tooth, a killer specimen and a breath taking collectors
piece.
This is the kind of tooth you want.
Measurements:
I have measured the tooth
From the left and right slant
And the widest section of the tooth
Being the width.
R= 5
L= 5 3
W= 3 14
Yours Faithfully
Snaggle.
Megalodon; meaning "big tooth", from Ancient Greek: ????? megas "big, mighty" and ??o?? (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 on 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.
This is an authentic Megalodon Sharks tooth with NO RESTORATION.
This tooth was found scuba diving in the Morgan River, Beaufort, S.C.
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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.
Measurements:
Are done in inches, one inch is divided by sixteen increments eg: 1 12 of an inch.