Meg day

[mxdigger]

I've been hunting this spot for years but never found a Meg tooth this big before. I've found smaller teeth of several kinds but my heart stopped when I picked this one up. Also got another pretty good load of whale bone parts and other assorted fossil rocks. One of these days I'm gonna find out what these bone pieces went to but for now I'm too busy crawling around in this cold creek bed.

 

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[A2coins]

Holy moly thats freaking cool thats a Big tooth amazing find Id be crawling around in the cold water too if that kind of finds were there. Keep those finds comin

 

[Kray Gelder]

That's a nice size Meg! Good find. Hey, have you tried screening the gravel in that creek? You'll find a bunch you'd never see just walking the creek. My theory on the whale, and dugong bone fragments, is that they have passed through the gut of a Meg, after getting chomped.

 

[bravowhiskey]

that is a perfect catch. Handle the tooth and imagine the power of that superb animal.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Very nice meg! Random bits of broken bone are very hard to ID to an animal. You typically need a mostly complete bone or one at with an end to match it to a species.

 

[Megalodon]

Congrats on a nice Meg tooth! It looks to have a tiny speck of feeding damage on one side - probably how the tooth was dislodged. I like it when we find the whale bones with cuts on them from feeding sharks, so its always worth looking closely at those marine mammal bones too.

 

[djackson7348]

Wow! I have picked some (much smaller) in Aurora, NC but yours, all I can say is WOW.

 

[scilover]

Wow! That’s an amazing find, the size of the teeth is huge! And the quality of it is still in good condition. It’s crazy to think such big creatures used to live in the ocean back then.

 

[DaveSmith]

Super find!

 

[mxdigger]

Wow! That’s an amazing find, the size of the teeth is huge! And the quality of it is still in good condition. It’s crazy to think such big creatures used to live in the ocean back then.

I hate to bring back to life this old thread, but I just had to make a comment on what you said about the " big creatures". What's really crazy about these fossils is that the closest ocean to this is now 80 miles away and on top of that this place is more than 5 miles from any river or large body of water. This whole area has been a shallow sea several times during the history of the east coast and is something some people have a hard time believing. And you are right, it is really crazy realize just how small we really are in the grand scheme of things regarding this earth.