Megalodon - Fossilised animal - 11 cm (No reserve price)

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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 (whose 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 (Aquitainian-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 Lamnidae family and a close relative of the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), but subsequent studies have reclassified it into the extinct Otodontidae family, a family that separated 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.

Big Megalodon tooth. Completely natural. very valuable tooth, enormous and of a beautiful shape and color. Discovery on the island of Java.
Otodus megalodon (whose 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 (Aquitainian-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 Lamnidae family and a close relative of the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), but subsequent studies have reclassified it into the extinct Otodontidae family, a family that separated 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.

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Specimen
Megalodon
Country of origin
Indonesia
Geological period
Neogene, Miocene (23.03 - 5.33 million years)
Condition
Natural
Height
11 cm
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