Shocking Shark Teeth
Club dedicated to shark teeth
- Members
- 57
- City
- Gainesville
- State
- Florida
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1 day, 9 hours agoGordy Williams joined the group Shocking Shark Teeth
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4 days, 8 hours agoBrian Mast joined the group Shocking Shark Teeth
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4 days, 10 hours agoJanice Nelson joined the group Shocking Shark Teeth
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4 days, 11 hours agoToast Catshark joined the group Shocking Shark Teeth
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4 days, 11 hours agoKeith Hacker posted a new specimen in the group Shocking Shark Teeth from the myFOSSIL app
Keith Hacker has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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4 days, 18 hours agoKeith Hacker joined the group Shocking Shark Teeth
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6 days, 20 hours agoSadie Mills posted an image in the group Shocking Shark Teeth from the myFOSSIL appWhat a difference in preservation between these two!
Found on a dredge spoil island on the Cape Fear river near Wilmington, NC. #fossil
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What causes that kind of discrepancy?
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Both teeth have been weathered as a result of being transported in a river. As the teeth are transported by the water they are worn down and their edges become smoothed out. If you look closely at the tooth on the right, you’ll notice that it has faint serrations that have been worn down. The tooth on the left has completely lost the enamel that covers the crown of the tooth. This tends to happen when a tooth dries out in the sun, the enamel will begin to flake off. Both teeth are likely the same species (Carcharocles auriculates), which is an Eocene ancestor of Megalodon.
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You can imagine it working like sand paper.
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@Denise-porcello I have no idea! Shark people, @jeanette-pirlo or @vperez, any thoughts?
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Both teeth have been weathered as a result of being transported in a river. As the teeth are transported by the water they are worn down and their edges become smoothed out. If you look closely at the tooth on the right, you’ll notice that it has faint serrations that have been worn down. The tooth on the left has completely lost the enamel that covers the crown of the tooth. This tends to happen when a tooth dries out in the sun, the enamel will begin to flake off. Both teeth are likely the same species (Carcharocles auriculates), which is an Eocene ancestor of Megalodon. @denise-porcello (I’m posting this again so that it shows up in the app as well)
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Amazing! Thanks Victor!
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6 days, 20 hours agoSadie Mills joined the group Shocking Shark Teeth
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6 days, 20 hours agoMary Jane Hughes posted an image in the group Shocking Shark Teeth from the myFOSSIL appCheck out these shark teeth from the Cape Fear river in North Carolina! Thanks to @sadie-mills for bringing in her awesome collection to the FOSSIL Project. #fossil
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1 week agoSamantha Ocon joined the group Shocking Shark Teeth -
1 week, 4 days agoKoen Vleminckx joined the group Shocking Shark Teeth
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1 week, 5 days agoBrandon Bingham joined the group Shocking Shark Teeth
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2 weeks agoPaul Somers joined the group Shocking Shark Teeth -
2 weeks, 2 days agoWilliam Allen posted an image in the group Shocking Shark Teeth from the myFOSSIL app
I was curious if anyone would know what type of shark tooth this is? I have looked around the internet to see if I could figure it out, but I am having no luck.
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That’s pretty worn. A scale bar and some locality info would help… Just based on that image, it could be a lower Lemon shark
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2 weeks, 3 days agoFred Cappe joined the group Shocking Shark Teeth
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2 weeks, 4 days agoEbrahim Hafez joined the group Shocking Shark Teeth
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2 weeks, 5 days agoJames Carson Sloan joined the group Shocking Shark Teeth -
4 weeks, 1 day agoNathan Newell joined the group Shocking Shark Teeth -
1 month agoJeanette Pirlo posted an image in the group Shocking Shark Teeth from the myFOSSIL appWho ate who? Beautiful shark tooth inside a Gomphothere mouth! #fossil
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The rare shark-lephant!
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A Gomphoshark! 😆
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You found a way to integrate your proboscidean research with your shark interest! “Trophic interactions between an extinct Gomphothere and the Sand Tiger Shark, Carcharias taurus”
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How did you figure out my title Victor?!
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