SH6-313 - FINE GRADE 4 INCH GRAY AND BROWN MOTTLED MEGALODON SHARK TOOTH FROM THE LOWER JAW

Product Description

ITEM # 

SH6-313

ID

Carcharocles megalodon

FOUND

St. Mary's River - Georgia, U.S.A.

AGE

MIOCENE to PLIOCENE:  23.3 - 1.81 million years ago

SIZE

4" in length on the diagonal edge

CONDITION

NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION

NOTE

UNUSUAL MOTTLED LIGHT AND DARK GRAY
WITH BROWN OVERTONES.  UNIQUE
COLLECTOR-GRADE TOOTH WITH
SERRATIONS, TIP AND LUSTROUS ENAMEL.

INCLUDES DIPLAY BOX - Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of authenticity / information sheet

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This is a beautiful, COLLECTOR GRADE Megalodon fossil shark tooth with a very unique blend of light and dark gray colors dominated by brown mottling on the lingual side.  The high luster is NOT from machine polishing.  Machine grinding and polishing a tooth destroys its value as a fossil specimen.  It is a LOWER jaw tooth hence the narrow blade profile.  Lower jaw teeth served to stab and hold prey like a fork holds a steak, while the upper broad-shaped teeth would serve as the knife, moving back and forth to slice off chunks of meat of any unfortunate prey.  Serration detail on this tooth is excellent with light feeding wear.  Unique colors and mottling a result of the unique deposit that the St. Mary's  River Basin offers.  The enamel and root are in exceptional dense preservation.  This specimen has NO REPAIR AND NO RESTORATION. 

Divers  will tell you that megalodon teeth like this are extremely difficult to find in today's waters.  This spectacular specimen is loaded with so many features desired by advanced Megalodon tooth collectors.  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.

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 in the larger sizes and "seemingly" fine qualities, have repair or restoration and this is not often disclosed to the buyer accurately.  Paleo Direct gets all its teeth directly from divers and cleans every specimen in our own on-premises lab facility.

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