COLLECTION OF FIVE MEGALODON TEETH
SOUTH CAROLINA / JAVA, MIOCENE PERIOD, 15 MILLION YEARS B.P.
£4,284
Classical Ancient Art // Form Through Time
Auction: Form Through Time - 21st March 2024 at 2pm
Description
a collection of five Otodus megalodon teeth, all with fine serrations
Dimensions
Length: 14.2cm, 13.5cm, 13.8cm, 12.8cm & 12.1cm
Footnote
Note:
Believed to have grown as large as 18 metres, the Megalodon (whose name translates as “large tooth”) was the largest shark and one of the most dominant marine predators ever to have existed. It roamed the ancient seas for around 20 million years until their extinction around 3.6 million years ago.
With skeletal remains exceptionally rare, Megalodon teeth are valuable sources of study, as well as highly decorative reminders of one of the largest and most dangerous marine creatures ever to have lived.
Each specimen here displays a different hue, influenced and coloured over the millennia by the conditions in which it was preserved.