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Name:
Carcharocles chubutensis Tooth
Age: Miocene
Formation: Pungo River Formation
Location: Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina
Size: Tooth is 3.5 inches long
This is a killer fossil shark tooth. It is a fabulous Carcharocles chubutensis (C. subauriculatus) shark tooth from North Carolina. Carcharocles chubutensis teeth from North Carolina are becoming extremely scarce, since public fossil collecting was curtailed a few years ago. This specimen came from a major shark tooth collection. The quality of the tooth is simply excellent. The tip and serrations are near-perfectly preserved and razor-sharp. The root, too, is in great shape. The enamel of the tooth is also almost fully intact and beautifully colored. It is extremely difficult to get a ''chub'' tooth from Aurora, North Carolina of this high quality. This is a very collectible fossil shark tooth from the Lee Creek Mine.
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