Megalodon - Fossilised animal - 11 cm





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Otodus megalodon Megalodonte specimen from the Neogene Miocene (23.03–5.33 million years ago) in Indonesia, natural in condition and 11 cm tall.
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Big Megalodon tooth. Completely natural. very valuable tooth, enormous and of a beautiful shape and color. Discovery on the island of Java.
Otodus megalodon (the species name, megalodon, derives from Greek and means "large tooth"), commonly known as megalodon or megalodonte, is an extinct species of giant shark that lived from the Early Miocene to the Early Pliocene, about 23–3.6 million years ago (Aquitanean–Zanclean), whose large fossil teeth demonstrate that it had a cosmopolitan distribution. In the past it was thought that O. megalodon was a member of the family Lamnidae and a close relative of the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), but subsequent studies have reclassified it within the extinct family Otodontidae, a family that separated from the lineage of the great white shark during the Early Cretaceous.
Size estimates of the megalodon vary depending on the method used, with maximum total length projections ranging from 14.2 to 20.3 meters.
Big Megalodon tooth. Completely natural. very valuable tooth, enormous and of a beautiful shape and color. Discovery on the island of Java.
Otodus megalodon (the species name, megalodon, derives from Greek and means "large tooth"), commonly known as megalodon or megalodonte, is an extinct species of giant shark that lived from the Early Miocene to the Early Pliocene, about 23–3.6 million years ago (Aquitanean–Zanclean), whose large fossil teeth demonstrate that it had a cosmopolitan distribution. In the past it was thought that O. megalodon was a member of the family Lamnidae and a close relative of the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), but subsequent studies have reclassified it within the extinct family Otodontidae, a family that separated from the lineage of the great white shark during the Early Cretaceous.
Size estimates of the megalodon vary depending on the method used, with maximum total length projections ranging from 14.2 to 20.3 meters.

