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This 2.30" fossil great white shark tooth comes from South Carolina's Lowcountry. Fossil great white teeth are popular for their bold serrations and natural colors.
Species: Carcharodon carcharias (great white shark)
Size: 2.30" long
Locality: South Carolina
Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene
Condition: 100% natural, no repair or restoration
Specimen #: 3146
About This Specimen
This tooth has natural fossil coloration created through millions of years of mineralization within marine sediments. The photos show the exact tooth you will receive.
About the Great White Shark
The great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, has hunted the oceans for roughly 5 million years and still lives today. Its fossil teeth are broad and triangular with coarse, irregular serrations, and unlike megalodon teeth they have no bourlette between the enamel and the root. The great white descends from smooth-toothed ancestors like the lesser white shark (Carcharodon hastalis), and fossil teeth from the Pliocene and Pleistocene are popular with collectors for their bold serrations and natural colors.
Where This Fossil Comes From: South Carolina
South Carolina's Lowcountry is one of the richest fossil shark tooth regions in the world. Divers recover teeth from blackwater rivers around Charleston and Beaufort, where currents expose layers ranging from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene. That range of ages is why the state produces everything from megalodon to its ancestors, angustidens and chubutensis, along with Ice Age mammal fossils. Learn more in our guide to where megalodon teeth are found.
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