This is a massive, serrated, 6.18" (!) longest side megalodon tooth collected from a river in North Carolina. Complete meg teeth of 6 inches are very rare, and for each 1/10th of an inch over they get exponentially more rare. This beast of a tooth has preserved serrations, a nice tip to it and is quite robust. It has no restoration or repair. Some cracks/bursts in the bourlette as shown on the pictures. Really impressive and heavy, collector quality North Carolina river meg. Weighing in at 442 (!!!!!) grams, making your common Meg teeth look tiny. Way heavier and more robust than any 6 inch Indonesian tooth on the market. At one of the pictures it’s displayed next to a 4 7/16 " (11,27 cm) Bone valley Meg to show how big it is. It a true beast. The megalodon was not only the biggest and baddest prehistoric shark that ever lived, it was the largest marine predator in the history of the planet. It terrorized the diverse ocean waters around the world from 15.9 to 2.6 million years ago, from the late Oligocene to the early Pleistocene. This massive and extinct species of shark was estimated to grow to nearly 60 feet in length and has often been declared the greatest vertebrate predator that ever lived. The standard measure for megalodon teeth is slant height, or the longest edge of the tooth. Adult megalodon teeth were typically in the 4 to 5 inch range: teeth over 6 inches are rare and represent super-sized individuals. Only a handful of teeth have ever been found over seven inches.