WH024 - FOSSIL ODONTOCETE WHALE TOOTH FROM THE MIOCENE

Product Description

ID

Odontocete 

FOUND

Edisto River - South Carolina, U.S.A.

AGE

MIOCENE:  23 million years

SIZE

3.7" long

CONDITION

COMPLETE, NO REPAIR 
OR RESTORATION

NOTE

RARE THIS COMPLETE.  UNUSUAL
GROWTH SEGMENTS ON BODY.

INCLUDES DISPLAY BOX - Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of 
authenticity / information sheet

This is a complete fossil tooth from an unidentified extinct Odontocete (toothed whale) from the Miocene Period.  Science readily admits it is difficult to accurately attribute isolated teeth such as these to a specific species.  A specimen such as this is perfect to display alongside a shark tooth collection as this creature would have shared the same waters and time period as many of the dangerous sharks found off the East Coast of North America during the Miocene / Pliocene including the infamous MEGALODON  shark.  

Rarely are these type fossil teeth found available for sale but when they are, they are almost always horribly worn or partial specimens.  This is a superb example!  It displays fascinating growth rings around the body and has a tip that has been made flat and sharp by natural feeding when this prehistoric whale was once alive.  Tooth is unbroken and shows a hollow root base as seen above.   Rare and unusual.  Intact with NO REPAIR and NO RESTORATION.