HOW TO FIND SHARK TEETH

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HOW TO FIND SHARK TEETH

#1 Post by billbillt » Sun Jul 01, 2018 9:42 pm

HOW TO FIND SHARK TEETH
Interesting...

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#2 Post by Rodney » Tue Jul 03, 2018 2:00 am

I have a lot of shark teeth I sifted out of the north east Florida coast several years ago, I was more interested in prehistoric mammal bones than the teeth, but interesting anyway.

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#3 Post by billbillt » Wed Jul 04, 2018 1:01 pm

Rodney wrote:I have a lot of shark teeth I sifted out of the north east Florida coast several years ago, I was more interested in prehistoric mammal bones than the teeth, but interesting anyway.
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Re: HOW TO FIND SHARK TEETH

#4 Post by coominya » Sun Jul 08, 2018 12:06 pm

Fossils hey? I never would have guessed. I had a white one when I was young, a necklace thing but the black ones do have appeal.

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#5 Post by billbillt » Sun Jul 08, 2018 6:36 pm

I have looked some on the beach for these, but never found one..

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#6 Post by Rodney » Mon Jul 09, 2018 3:00 pm

I just got around to it and took a few photos of several of these small shark teeth.
The longest one is 3 cm
Stereo scope x 7 mag.,, I have no idea of the age.
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#7 Post by Hobbyst46 » Mon Jul 09, 2018 3:47 pm

The left one is impressive, like it has a double saw blade in its mouth...

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#8 Post by Rodney » Mon Jul 09, 2018 4:49 pm

I may be able to obtain a little better photo of it and a few more. This old scope needs a little cleaning.

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#9 Post by billbillt » Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:22 pm

Hobbyst46 wrote:The left one is impressive, like it has a double saw blade in its mouth...
That is what makes them so dangerous.. they do a twisting with the head and the teeth saw through things..
This causes a tremendous amount of damage..
If you have not heard of it. here is a terrifying shark story from more that a 100 years ago....

https://weirdnj.com/stories/matawan-man-eater/

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#10 Post by billbillt » Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:23 pm

Rodney wrote:I may be able to obtain a little better photo of it and a few more. This old scope needs a little cleaning.
This looks good enough to me.. Thanks for posting...

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#11 Post by Hobbyst46 » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:48 pm

billbillt wrote:
Hobbyst46 wrote:The left one is impressive, like it has a double saw blade in its mouth...
That is what makes them so dangerous.. they do a twisting with the head and the teeth saw through things..
This causes a tremendous amount of damage..
If you have not heard of it. here is a terrifying shark story from more that a 100 years ago....

https://weirdnj.com/stories/matawan-man-eater/
Thanks for the link, Bill. Read it through. In fact, years ago I watched a TV program about these 1916 shark attacks in NJ. It was on the History Channel or National Geographic Channel.

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#12 Post by Rodney » Tue Jul 10, 2018 2:34 am

Thanks, I hope we can have a little micro-fossil interest and photo`s at some point in time. But if the specimen can fit on the stage and focus to some degree we can look at it.
Warning, don`t crash an objective down on a hard rock.

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Re: HOW TO FIND SHARK TEETH

#13 Post by billbillt » Tue Jul 10, 2018 8:28 am

Micro fossils are a very interesting study... Foraminifera is another ... Not all of them are fossils..

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