An eight-year-old boy made the “find of a lifetime” while on a fossil digging tour during a family vacation in South Carolina.
Riley Moore of Pennsylvania recently discovered a 4.75″ angustiden fossilized tooth, from a giant prehistoric shark, at the Palmetto Fossil Excursions facility in Summerville, located approximately 25 miles east of Charleston.CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! This young man just scored a 4.75″ Angustiden tooth in our Premium Gravel Layer piles on a dry dig!!! Just to give perspective – Any Angustiden over 4″ is the equivalent of finding a 6″ Meg, and an Angustiden at 4.75″ is the equivalent of finding a 6.
An angustiden is an extinct shark species dating back almost 22 million to 33 million years ago and is believed to be closely related to another extinct supersized megatooth shark, otherwise known as the megalodon,Megalodon sharks reached sizes up to 60 feet in length and weighed up to 75 tons — approximately as much as 30 great white sharks,
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