No. 96203896

Shark - Fossil tooth - Otodus (Carcharocles) megalodon - 10.7 cm (No Reserve Price)
No. 96203896

Shark - Fossil tooth - Otodus (Carcharocles) megalodon - 10.7 cm (No Reserve Price)
Beautiful megalodon tooth from Indonesia. Found on the island of Java. Beige brown colors. Only the root part has been restored. Enamel is completely natural and beautifully preserved.
Otodus megalodon (whose species name, megalodon, comes from Greek and means "big tooth"), commonly known as megalodon, is an extinct species of giant shark that lived from the early Miocene to the early Pliocene, about 23-3.6 million years ago (Aquitanian-Zanclean), whose large fossil teeth demonstrate it had a cosmopolitan distribution. In the past, O. megalodon was thought to be a member of the Lamnidae family 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 split from the lineage of the great white shark during the early Cretaceous.
Estimates of the megalodon's size vary depending on the method used, with projections of maximum total length ranging from 14.2 to 20.3 meters.
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