Some clad and a Shark

[Briman05]

I went to a beach yesterday that I haven't been to in over a year. I could tell someone had hit the are before my friend and I hit the beach because of the holes an boot prints. That person did leave a good amount of targets behind because is found $1.84 and my buddy found atleast a $1.50. I also found a shark tooth. Does anyone know what type of shark it is from, I have looked at several different examples of sharks teeth and the one that looks like it is a Great White. Also is there a way to tell how ok it is.

 

[oleman]

No clue---but nice find

 

[ScubaDetective]

Well by looking at the tooth I can tell you almost for sure what kind of shark it came from.

It looks like it came from a shark that can bite!!

Ok I will go back to my corner now. Nice find

 

[brncofan]

cool shark tooth

 

[GroundSweeper]

Cool tooth! I think Donnybrook knows teeth, but great white, or its ancestors looks about right to me.

 

[FelixtheCat]

A nice triangle like that is definitely great white.

 

[Captain Silver]

Yup, looks like a Great White tooth...very cool!

 

[Briman05]

Does anyone know how to tell the age of a shark tooth

 

[18kRonin]

Does anyone know how to tell the age of a shark tooth

Very cool find Briman05, never found a sharks tooth and kind of glad I haven't I'd hate to be water hunting at night knowing the owner of that tooth could be nearby

Found some good info on sharks teeth in this site

https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/fossils/fossil_modernsharkteeth.html

 

[Donneybrook]

Cool tooth! I think Donnybrook knows teeth, but great white, or its ancestors looks about right to me.

That i do.

You can tell its a Great White instead of a Mako tooth because of the serrations.

Super awesome find!

 

[imalookin2]

Great White tooth. Not a fossil though, a fresh drop. If it were a fossil it would be darker. Stay out of the water.

 

[Briman05]

Great White tooth. Not a fossil though, a fresh drop. If it were a fossil it would be darker. Stay out of the water.

I have read that color doesn't directly involve age it is more so where it was found I this on the beach after having a nor'easter earlier in the week. A lot of sand was taken off the beach and brought down to the lower part of the beach.

 

[joe dert]

shark tooth..very cool..looks like a nice one..

 

[robby4570]

That i do.

You can tell its a Great White instead of a Mako tooth because of the serrations.

Super awesome find!

So, this one that I found in Panama City Beach is from a Great White? I'm NEVER getting back in the water!!

OH, wait a minute.... HE11 YES I'm getting back in the water!!!

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Finding THIS in the water (came up in the scoop) concerns me more than a shark's tooth...

 

[Donneybrook]

So, this one that I found in Panama City Beach is from a Great White? I'm NEVER getting back in the water!!

OH, wait a minute.... HE11 YES I'm getting back in the water!!!

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Finding THIS in the water (came up in the scoop) concerns me more than a shark's tooth...[/SIZE]

that one looks like a White Tip shark if i'm not mistaken. And that sting ray barb looks MEAN AS HECK! yowch!

 

[Donneybrook]

Great White tooth. Not a fossil though, a fresh drop. If it were a fossil it would be darker. Stay out of the water.

I have read that color doesn't directly involve age it is more so where it was found I this on the beach after having a nor'easter earlier in the week. A lot of sand was taken off the beach and brought down to the lower part of the beach.

i agree with Briman. i believe its still fossilized. my grandfather found this gorgeous tooth in a creek in Florida that is fossilized but is still tan.

 

[Briman05]

I joined a facebook page and the people on there said that it is probably a fossil of the modern great white

 

[itsaring!]

I joined a facebook page and the people on there said that it is probably a fossil of the modern great white

It is a Great White tooth that has been fossilized. No doubt about it. I have several colors. The term modern Great White just means it's from a Great White shark that still exists today. Not from an Ancestor that supposedly evolved into one. Extinct Mako, Megalodon, Mackeral shark, etc.

"This fossilized shark tooth once graced the ferocious jaws of a large shark now extinct, called the Mackeral Shark, otherwise known as Otodus obliquus. This creature is thought to be at the heart of the White shark family tree and is found in hard sandstone rock matrix in the phosphate mines in Khouribga, Morocco. The Mackeral Shark was king of the Paleocene seas 60 million years ago and is the prehistoric ancestor of the modern Great White Shark."

Teeth from top to bottom are Mackeral shark, Megalodon, extinct mako, last two rows Great White. The top left Mackeral shark tooth could be 6o million years old

 

[Briman05]

Thanks for the information it is crazy to think that this sharks teeth and most of the ones we find are older then our country and older then the people who first sailed to here. Heck in some cases they are older the the first people to walk on the earth

 

[zeemang]

Nice big tooth, that's a keeper for sure!