Megalodon - Fossilised animal - 10 cm

A big megalodon tooth. A very valuable tooth, enormous and of a beautiful shape and color. Discovered on the island of Java. A small restoration near the root; apart from this, very natural with enamel and bourlette excellently preserved.

Otodus megalodon (whose species name, megalodon, derives from Greek and means "great tooth"), commonly known as megalodon or megalodonte, is an extinct species [3] of giant shark that lived from the Early Miocene to the Early Pliocene, about 23 to 3.6 million years ago (Aquitian-Zanclean), whose large fossil teeth show that it had a cosmopolitan distribution. In the past it was thought that O. megalodon belonged to the family Lamnidae and was a close relative of the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), but subsequent studies have reclassified it within the extinct family Otodontidae, a family that split from the lineage of the great white shark during the Early Cretaceous.

Estimates of Megalodon’s size vary depending on the method used, with maximum total-length projections ranging from 14.2 to 20.3 meters.