Product Description
This tooth comes from a certain deposit of the St. Mary's River system where the fossil teeth developed a strong remarkable reflective chatoyance in the enamel that flashes underlying silver reflections and color changes when turned in light. In addition to this desirable feature, some of the St. Mary's teeth show a reddish or rich copper red brown color in the enamel. This tooth has BOTH of these rare, coveted features! The minerals and tannins in the water make for this unique trait but only in certain areas of this river system and those deposits are few and far between. Serrations are incredibly sharp and well-preserved with the exception of a bite nick on one blade edge, caused when this Megalodon shark was once alive, biting down so hard during feeding that a lower jaw tooth bit into the edge of this primary upper jaw tooth.
Very few teeth are ever found with such desirable traits as this prize tooth!!! This is a TOP COLLECTOR GRADE beautiful Megalodon tooth from this unique site. The enamel is a reflective copper red and silver color with strong chatoyance in bright light. Root is solid and stabilized with complimentary warm brown colors. Definitely, a tooth with unique and highly aesthetic features seldom seen!
The massive Megalodon shark is one of the largest and most fearsome predators that ever existed in the ancient seas. Owning a genuine, fine quality tooth from these terrible creatures of prehistory is the pride of many collectors. This high grade tooth came from the famous shark known scientifically as Carcharocles megalodon - the largest and deadliest shark that ever lived! This spectacular specimen is loaded with so many features desired by advanced Megalodon tooth collectors. Teeth like these are getting certainly harder to come by in today's market. Current and increasing future demand will never be satisfied by the dwindling numbers of the truly top grade specimens such as this beauty, hence their constantly increasing prices each year.
Collectors of Megalodon teeth not only look to size and condition, but unique colors or phenomena about a tooth can really drive fanciers wild and this tooth is an example of that. Megalodon fossil teeth in unique colors, command a very strong demand and premium due to their scarcity and beauty and are the rarest and most desired of fossil shark teeth.
Megalodon teeth found in rivers are almost always heavily eroded and worn from the high energy environment in which they were subjected to. They usually have dull, sand-blasted enamel, peeling back from the core. The roots are often damaged. While we strictly avoid Megalodon teeth with restoration or repair, Caveat emptor as some Megalodon teeth in dealers' inventories have repair or restoration which GREATLY diminishes the value. This is not often disclosed to the buyer accurately.
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