North Carolina Megalodon 5.39"

North Carolina Megalodon 5.39"Good 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

It represents an earlier stage in the evolution of large lamniform sharks

often retaining sharp serrations despite their age

Just the tusk measures about 10

The details and intricate pattern of the interior of this fossil tusk are only seen once we cut and polish the surface with diamond wheels

Whether worn casually or dressed up

along with Stegosaurus and ornithopods including Camptosaurus and Dryosaurus

and natural erosion slowly expose those fossil layers along “the ledges” and other drop-offs in 80–120 feet of water

Great white sharks have a cosmopolitan distribution

it was the result of several advantages working together:

shallow Gulf shelf—the same warm

and offshore ledges that divers can actually reach

Though nearly perfect