Fossil tooth of an anicent sea monster.

[tinpan]

Hi all, Spent a week end down the coast visiting my sister-in -law. Southern coast of Victoria is not a real nice place to be in winter. Southern Ocean is quite good at given up some icy windy weather so sun baking and swimming was quite out of the question. LOL

Siter-in -law told us about a disused Quarry that local fossil hunters go too . Spent staurday afternoon searching around the base of the quarry walls for fossils. It was nice to try something different. Between 4 of us we found one fossil tooth. Still the weather got the better of us so we headed to the nearest open fire place. Yes the local pub (bar) . Don,t member much else ,except the hang -over. Might try this again some time.

tinpan i have no ideas on what this fossil came from.

 

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[pepperj]

Nice tooth

 

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[allen]

hate to be bitten by that mouth where that tooth came from !!

 

[ivan salis]

the beast that that belonged to would eat todays great whites for a snack -- huge mega shark --very nice and valuible find

 

[allen]

I remember a couple years back a man in Powell County, Kentucky discovered
the fossilized remains of a giant shark in a place we use to camp out at that we
all called the falls.
The article was in the Winchester Sun and said it would make todays sharks look
like a 10 pound bass.

 

[Dano Sverige]

Megalodon = 67 ft long
Liopleurodon = 86 ft long

You wouldn't want either thinking you were a toothpick!

 

[tnt-k9]

I suggest you take a dip in that body of water where that tooth was found.

Kirk

Yes Kirk About 12 species of man eating sharks in these waters. The local custom is tourists first. Always good to use Manners.


tinpan

Always treat the guest right

 

[master mason]

The tooth you have found is a mako it is not a megalodon. Megalodon has serrates a mako don't nice find though . value would be depending on size a 2 inch is worth between 20.00 and 100.00 US dollars to the right person. you can check out some prices on fossil byte dot com

 

[Sofaman36]

The tooth you have found is a mako it is not a megalodon. Megalodon has serrates a mako don't nice find though . value would be depending on size a 2 inch is worth between 20.00 and 100.00 US dollars to the right person. you can check out some prices on fossil byte dot com

There ARE serrations on this tooth.

 

[Nate in Ga]

Sharks shed something like 40,000 teeth in their lifetime, not sure that one based on the size is actually a megladon tooth, I lived on Florida atlantic coast for a time and you could go out and pick up teeth every night if you wanted all of them are black like that from all diff species of sharks its what the salt water does to them, I used to have a poster for identifying them.


It is def a extinct maco tooth as stated by master mason

put the dime size coin next to that one lol

 

[stefen]

Think its better to hold it in your hand than to have it holding your hand...some logic in there somewhere

 

[Nate in Ga]

Think its better to hold it in your hand than to have it holding your hand...some logic in there somewhere

who could argue with that logic....... lol

 

[Deepdiger60]

Nice old shark tooth i posted a megladon tooth you can see the size difference Good Hunt Dd60

 

[Arthur Neto]

Wow... is that a blood stain on the last pic??

 

[mickk]

I got a black one about half that size, bought it off ebay, paid too much, now one that fills your hand can be had for a hundred bucks. Someone must have found a sinkhole somewhere I reckon.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I found this one . . . in a flea market outside Memphis. I paid $12 for it. but that was back when two could eat an nice supper on that. ;-)

 

[hamiddetecting]

Nice finds.

 

[oldsalty19]