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natsamjosh
at Sat Aug 16 14:53:45 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by natsamjosh ]
My other major hobby is collecting shark teeth. It's a great hobby that never gets boring. (And I get bored easily!) I enjoy it not only because of the variety and beauty of the teeth, but it is quite educational if you want it to be. Collecting teeth/fossils encompasses geology, paleontology, geography, taxonomy, etc., which is fun for a nerd like me. Here a few pics that touch the tip of the iceberg. Thanks for looking.
Thanks,
Ed
Here's a picture that shows the size range fossil shark teeth. The tiny spot on the center of the big tooth is a
little tooth from a Cat shark. The big tooth is a "Holy Grail" type of tooth for collectors, it's a 6" megalodon
tooth from Aurora, NC. There is a phosphate mine in Aurora where giant excavators dig up the fossil layers to
get to the phosphate, which is deep down in the ground. The big tooth is 2 to 5 Million Years old, the small one
probably about 10 MYO.
Here's a neat tooth from the lower jaw of an extinct Cow shark. A few types of cow shark exist today, they are
also called 6 gilled and 7 gilled sharks. Their teeth are unique, and also vary in shape/size depending on tooth
position. This one was found in the Atacama Desert, Chile, South America, and is about 2-5 MYO.
This one I found myself in a creek in eastern NC. And yes, I screamed like a little girl when I found it. (Good thing I was in the middle of the woods!) It's a Great White (C. carcharias) tooth. (Same species as the extant Great White.) A little over 2 1/4" long, and less than 2 MYO.
Here's one of my favorites, it's a 5" red/orange/brown megalodon from Meherrin River, NC. (Most megalodon teeth you see are
found in coastal rivers.)
This is a really colorful tooth from an extinct type of mako shark. It was found in Bakersfield, California. (about 10 MYO)
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 Way more OT but by request -Shark teeth - natsamjosh, Sat Aug 16 14:53:45 2008
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