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Sharks teeth fossils
This page is about my collection of fossilised sharks teeth and contains information and online resources on fossil shark teeth in general.
Shark fossils are extremely rare because sharks have no bones, only cartilage, which does not fossilize. However, shark teeth are very hard and made of a bone-like material coated with hard enamel so their teeth fossilize very well.
Fossil shark tooth : Corax Prisodontus
Corax Prisodontus, Cretaceous, Morocco. 35mm fine fossil shark tooth
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Fossil shark tooth : Isurus Hastalis
From the Miocene of the Atacama desert Chile. 40mm shark tooth from the extinct Big-tooth Mako shark.
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Prehistoric Megalodon shark tooth.
25 million years old. About 75mm. Small Megalodon tooth.
Megalodon was an ancient shark that may have been 40 feet (12 m) long or even more. (There are a few scientists who estimate that it could have been up to 100 feet (31 m) long!) This is at least three times as long as the Great White Shark, but this is only an estimate made from many fossilized teeth and a few fossilized vertebrae that have been found. These giant teeth are over 6" (150mm) long and the size of a person's hand! No other parts of this ancient shark have been found, so we can only guess what it looked like. Since Megalodon's teeth are very similar to the teeth of the Great White Shark (but bigger and thicker), it is thought that Megalodon may have looked like a huge, streamlined version of the Great White Shark, feeding mainly on a diet of whales.
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Fossil Cretolamna biauriculata maroccana shark tooth on matrix
60mm tooth on 80mm x 100mm matrix. Cretolamna biauriculata maroccana. Extinct Mackerel Shark late Cretaceous approximately 70 Million Years Old.
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Fossil Cretolamna biauriculata maroccana shark tooth
70mm tooth. Cretolamna biauriculata maroccana. Extinct Mackerel Shark late Cretaceous approximately 70 Million Years Old.
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Books
There don't seem to be any UK books specifically on collecting sharks teeth, but there are some on Amazon.com. The two I have are: 'Fossil Shark Teeth of the World' and Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter.
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