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FS205 Juvenile Megalodon Tooth

3.8 cm. Long x 3.8 cm. Wide x 0.6 cm. High

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Classification: Metazoa, Chordata, Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes, Lamnidae, Carcharocles megalodon

Description: Tooth from a juvenile C. megalodon. The cusps appear in teeth of Miocene young specimens, only to disappear as the shark grows. Pliocene specimens, juvenile or adult, do not have cusps.

Age: Miocene Epoch

Location Found: United States, Florida, Peace River, FL

Found by: hamsmth4

Custodian: hamsmth4

Identified by: hemipristis

References: Megalodon, Hunting the Hunter, Mark Renz, p. 88.