sharks tooth id please

[dirt diva]

Found this tooth and old oyster shells.What kind of sharks tooth?

 

[Diver_Down]

Carcharadon megalodon or the Giant Great White. Excellent find

 

[dirt diva]

Thank you so much Diver Down
We have a area two miles in radius of hills that are made of these shells and petrified clams;etc.
I better get out and do some more walking.

 

[cntrydncr1]

wow that is awesome!! congrats

 

[lamplighter36]

Beauty Meg!

Sounds like you have a great spot to hunt. There are bound to be more there.

Love the color on this one.

 

[dkTreasure]

nice Meg! Usually where there is 1 there is more so keep hunting that area! or tell me where it is so I can go look

 

[Harry Pristis]

It's Carcharodon megalodon . . . OR . . . it's Carcharocles megalodon, depending on which evolutionary path you believe this shark followed.

Some taxonomists still hold to a relationship between C. megalodon and the modern great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias); but, more shark taxonomists now believe that C. megalodon was not related to the great white. Most believe that C. megalodon was the end of an evolutionary line (Otodontidae), and that the modern great white evolved from a lamnid (makos) shark.

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