ID Help Pt 2: Venice, FL Shark Teeth

[chelonia]

Teeth recovered scuba diving in ocean from Venice, FL. You all were so helpful that I’m already back with more haha

 

Stuck on a few of these. Really hoping for a hammerhead but I’m not sure… (again I’m a newbie so thanks in advance) 

 

[Coco]

5 is Barracuda.

 

Coco

[Fin Lover]

Sorry, I'm not seeing a hammerhead.

#1- meg

#8 - sand tiger

#5 - barracuda, as Coco said 

#7 - I'm not sure, it's just a fragment 

The rest are Carcharhinus and lemons again

 

 

 

Edited May 20 by Fin Lover

[Balance]

With the grey sharks you’ll want to inspect them for species in hand. The differences are pretty subtle for photos. 
 

Here’s a couple guides I’m currently using to sort through teeth. 
 

Jp

 

 

 

These are all bill Shark examples. The more triangular are upper teeth. The “T” shape are lowers. I had to make a cheat sheet for them because they look so similar to the other lowers. . 

 

[Fin Lover]

I just lump all my Carcharhinus together and don't even bother IDing them further.  

[Balance]

@Fin Lover I’m in Carcharhinus purgatory at the moment 😂 …. Sort through the teeth while the rivers green, they say. It will be fun, they say. 🤯🤯

 

😂

 

Jp

 

[Fin Lover]

@Balance, nope, I'm out.  

 

I just don't see it being worth the time, personally.  I am probably one of the few people who doesn't even sort most of their shark teeth by type of shark.  Any small, broken or worn, run-of-the-mill teeth get mixed together in one container (well, it's more than one now) and the high quality small, run-of-the-mill teeth get mixed in a different container.  Maybe I would do it differently if I found more high quality teeth.  

 

[Balance]

@Fin Lover I stopped at the CL bulls and lemons(I stopped with the lemons after a cup) . The rest are Carcharhinus… sorted the various tigers, hemis, and unique ones. 

 

If I didn’t need a gallon bags worth a couple times a year for Cub scouts I don’t think I’d keep the Carcharhinus species but those kids go nuts for a big handful of teeth.  I do have a vision of a 5gallon car boy filled up. I’d like to do that one day. Right now I run out of teeth in the fall after Scout fossil night though. (Not my tigers and hemis 😊)

[chelonia]

@Balance I don’t know how you do it with the Carcharhinus… I think I’m losing my mind😂

 

Edited May 21 by chelonia