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 Unidentified Tooth Miocene, Calvert Formation, Maryland
 
 11/10/2008 4:48:38 PM
User is offlineFat Boy
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Unidentified Tooth Miocene, Calvert Formation, Maryland

I found this tooth a couple years ago at Brownie's Beach in Maryland and have yet to identify it.  I thought it might have been a parasymphyseal Physogaleus contortus tooth, but others that I've shown it to think it could be a great white.  I doubt that because I've never seen a gw found at that location.  The cutting edges are complete and fully but finely serrated.  Perhaps it's a transitional mako?  I have no idea.  Help!  ...and thank you!

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"Go ahead punk, Mako my day!" -Dirty Harry
 11/10/2008 4:51:42 PM
User is offlineFat Boy
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Re: Unidentified Tooth Miocene, Calvert Formation, Maryland

I'll try again...

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"Go ahead punk, Mako my day!" -Dirty Harry
 11/10/2008 7:36:11 PM
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Re: Unidentified Tooth Miocene, Calvert Formation, Maryland

FB, this one is a bit of a stumper.  In the first two views the tooth closely resembles a few teeth I have found at Ches. beach over the years and mine I believe are a juvenile Meg teeth which have worn down roots like your specimen.  What is odd is the thick appearance of the torus part of the root in the side profile pic.  That makes it look like a symph snaggletooth, but the crown is wrong because it is too wide and the serrations too smal going all the way up to the root.  This thick root section also leans toward a contortus as you mentioned, but my overall guess is a juvenile Meg that is maybe pathological.  If I can I'll try to locate my specimens for comparison.

Daryl.

 11/15/2008 2:17:14 PM
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Re: Unidentified Tooth Miocene, Calvert Formation, Maryland
 Modified By ditchweezil  on 11/15/2008 8:18:42 AM)
My first thought was megalodon, but all the megs I have that resemble this one differ in one primary way - the presence of a bourlette which this tooth doesn't seem to have. It really looks like a great white from that prospective, except for the thickness of the root. I'm still leaning towards megalodon, though.
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