Holden Beach Shark Teeth ID, please and thank you.

[SPrice]

Just got back from a family vacay at Holden Beach, NC.  These three shark teeth were found by a niece.  She let me take some pics of them. No other shark teeth were found.

 

The white one might be modern versus fossil. A guess is juvenile Great White Shark tooth.  Measurement - 32mm.  I did find a few fossil bivalve shells in matrix with Sea Biscuits ( Hardouinia Mortonis) along with a possible fossil vertebra...I'll post those later.

 

 

 

 

 

Front and back.

 

 

 

Steve

 

 

 

Edited June 17 by SPrice

[Fin Lover]

Correct...great white.  There are fossils that color in Summerville and I believe I've seen some from Myrtle Beach that color, but I don't know about that one.

  

[hemipristis]

Pretty GW!

[FossilizedDistraction]

It’s a Beautiful Great White upper jaw tooth. I believe that coloring is due to the phosphate leeching out post-fossilization. You can see some fainter dark areas on the crown.

[FossilizedDistraction]

The smallest tooth appears to be serrated. That looks like a lower jaw Carcharhinus species.

 

The tooth to the left is a species of Sand Tiger Shark

[sixgill pete]

Yes, the white tooth is a Carcharodon carcharias, great white. It is a fossil from the Pleistocene era. There are Pleistocene finds from the dredging that was done offshore and added to the beach there for renourishment.

 

The other teeth. The long narrow one is likely a cretaceous sand tiger. It is to worn to narrow down to species and even Genus. The smaller tooth like @FossilizedDistraction said is likely a Carcharhinus species. Not sure I would say lower jaw. It is likely from the Pleistocene also, better quality more close up pics would be need to I.D. it to species level.

[SPrice]

As I mentioned somewhere in the post, my niece is the shark tooth finder.  I only managed to get a couple of cell phone pics of them and the quality of enlarged cell pics is what you see.

 

Thanks for the ID and comments.  I have found dozens of shark teeth over the years during our beach vacations but it was always just part of shelling and not serious collecting. 

[Frightmares]

Nice GW tooth! Love the colors on it too. First tooth looks like a sand tiger and the smaller one looks possibly like a Hardnose shark tooth.