North Carolina Megalodon 4.17"

North Carolina Megalodon 4.17"Quality Megalodon tooth recovered from North Carolina The stand shown in the photograph is included. Why so many Megalodon teeth come from offshore North Carolina The coast of North Carolina is one of the most famous Megalodon tooth localities in the world. Offshore of the modern beaches lies a broad continental shelf cut by ancient river channels and fossil rich formations such as the Pungo River and Yorktown formations. These layers were laid down

filling many of the top predator roles in the world’s oceans right up until the end-Cretaceous extinction

Blue or green in rarer mineral conditions

Otodus auriculatus Tooth Identification

it has a beautiful coloration

It’s a dinosaur that has forced paleontologists to rethink what large theropods could do

Approximate Dimensions: 90 × 65 × 62 mm

it spent much of its day hanging around the water’s edge

Marshosaurus occupied an intermediate position in this hierarchy

Its teeth were peg-like

Often more curved or hook-like

from the shallow epicontinental seas of North America and Europe to the open waters of what is now Africa and Antarctica

Certain unstable elements within the meteorite