North Carolina Shark Tooth

Shorewalker · Jul 21, 2018

Found this on an island off Wrightsville Beach a couple of days ago. I was on vacation and not expecting to find a tooth but it was laying in the sand at the edge of the surf line. I don't find this particular type where I look in Virginia. Anyone know the type - great white??

buck8point · Jul 21, 2018

Very Nice Find.. Looks like a Great White.

Kray Gelder · Jul 21, 2018

Yeah, a fossilized example of an extinct line of the great white shark. Nice one!

Hawks88 · Jul 21, 2018

Nice find. Congrats

Knockneed Man · Jul 29, 2018

Beautiful tooth!!

CaptEsteban · Jul 29, 2018

Yes, Megalodon, prehistoric Great White. There are MANY to be found while diving offshore of North Carolina.

Rookster · Jul 29, 2018

Nice find.Hate to be bitten by that monster.

Shorewalker · Jul 29, 2018

CaptEsteban said:
Yes, Megalodon, prehistoric Great White. There are MANY to be found while diving offshore of North Carolina.

Wow, that's amazing. Have you done this? I would learn to scuba dive just to do this!

Ninjafossils · Jul 29, 2018

Op's tooth is a great white, not a Megalodon

Megalodon · Jul 29, 2018

Very nice find! I agree with the others that this tooth is a Great White rather than a Megalodon. In most areas, the Great White teeth are less common than Megalodons. Estimated age 10-15M years old, Miocene.

Shorewalker · Jul 30, 2018

Megalodon said:
Very nice find! I agree with the others that this tooth is a Great White rather than a Megalodon. In most areas, the Great White teeth are less common than Megalodons. Estimated age 10-15M years old, Miocene.

Thanks for the details!

bearbqd · Jul 30, 2018

Awesome! And that video is insane! I’d love to find those

CaptEsteban · Jul 31, 2018

I have done that many, many times. Paleontologists calculate that for every inch of the prehistoric tooth, the shark was 10 ft long. 6 " tooth= 60 ft shark !!

Thanks for correcting me. For years, Megalodon WAS thought to be an ancestor to the Great White. So many people, including myself, still refer to them as the same.
Coastal Rivers of South Carolina have produced many of these teeth, but you need to be a very experienced diver to dive there. Offshore N.C. is where the video above was shot. You still need experience to dive there, but at least you have a lot more visibility.

https://www.fossilera.com/pages/megalodon

South Carolina river diving ;

jdsly · Aug 6, 2018

Yup very cool...i learned to dive when i was 13 just so i could dive the cooper river for sharks teeth.....good times

Shorewalker · Aug 6, 2018

jdsly said:
Yup very cool...i learned to dive when i was 13 just so i could dive the cooper river for sharks teeth.....good times

I've been looking into lessons/certification and may do this in the Fall when I get to SWFL. Maybe dive off Venice Beach. I've always wanted to scuba dive. I'm already planning to hit the Peace River and screen for teeth. It does sound pretty picked-over though...

CaptEsteban · Aug 7, 2018

Storms etc., are always uncovering more fossils. I remember many years ago, when people said that all the teeth were almost gone in Copper River. Diving at Venice is a MUCH safer dive than Cooper .