Partial, 1.87" Fossil Megalodon Tooth - Serrated Blade

Partial, Fossil Megalodon Tooth - Serrated Blade #371724

This is a partial, 1.87" long serrated megalodon tooth collected on the North Carolina coast. It was found by commercial divers collecting "the ledges" in about 100 feet of water. It would have eroded out of the Pungo River Formation putting its age in the range of 13.8 to 16 million years old. A tooth of this size (if complete, over 3") would have come from a prehistoric mega-shark in the 30 foot size range.

No one knows for sure why the megalodon went extinct 2.6 million years ago, but the cooling of the climate and gradual disappearance of many of the large whales it relied on for food are suspects.

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