greel Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Found a few teeth in the creek today while digging with good friends. These were my favorites. -greel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haizahnjager Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Beautiful teeth Greel! What are the size ranges on the GW's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Sweet Teeth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 awsome finds man, good job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 That grey & blue Gt. White is gorgeous! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Great Finds!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greel Posted December 21, 2008 Author Share Posted December 21, 2008 Beautiful teeth Greel! What are the size ranges on the GW's? The small two toned great white is only 1.5 inches and the larger one is about 2 inches. I'm still searching for my 3 inch carcharias tooth. I know they are in there, as I witnessed a friend pull out a complete black beauty that measured 3 1/8 inches! I myself have a couple in the 2 1/2 (+) inch range which are still rare (and getting more so). The trick is finding the teeth without damage. The roots of great whites are quite delicate and are usually the first to go, either found completely missing from the blade or terribly erroded. I have a great white tooth without any root that might very well have been a 3 incher. You get that big fat 3 inch tooth with the wrinkled enamel at the base of the crown, and you know you have JAWS himself. Like Matt Hooper says when they first see the shark "That's a twenty footer!" Quint replies "Twenty five - three tons of him." -greel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pristiformes Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 The tooth on the bottom right hand side of the first photo is a posterior Carcharocles megalodon, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greel Posted December 21, 2008 Author Share Posted December 21, 2008 The tooth on the bottom right hand side of the first photo is a posterior Carcharocles megalodon, right? It's a crow shark tooth - Squalicorax pristodontus. -greel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy 55 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Great finds! It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pristiformes Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 It's a crow shark tooth - Squalicorax pristodontus.-greel Thanks for the correction. That's one of many shark teeth I've never had a chance to collect and so I'm not at all familiar with it. Down here, crows and sharks get together, even in the fossil record. Nice finds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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