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Megalodon - Fossil tooth - 11 cm  (No Reserve Price)
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Megalodon - Fossil tooth - 11 cm (No Reserve Price)

Bellissimo Dente di Megalodonte dall'indonesia. Ha subito un restauro nella zona della radice, Otodus megalodon (il cui nome della specie, megalodon, deriva dal greco e significa "grande dente"), comunemente noto come megalodon o megalodonte, è una specie estinta [3] di squalo gigante vissuto dal Miocene inferiore al Pliocene inferiore, circa 23-3,6 milioni di anni fa (Aquitaniano-Zancleano), i cui grandi denti fossili dimostrano avesse una distribuzione cosmopolita. In passato si pensava che O. megalodon fosse un membro della famiglia Lamnidae e un parente stretto del grande squalo bianco (Carcharodon carcharias), ma successivi studi lo hanno riclassificato all'interno della famiglia estinta Otodontidae, famiglia che si separò dal lignaggio del grande squalo bianco durante il Cretaceo inferiore. Le stime delle dimensioni del megalodonte variano a seconda del metodo utilizzato, con proiezioni di lunghezza totale massima comprese tra 14,2 e 20,3 metri.

No. 94749420

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Megalodon - Fossil tooth - 11 cm  (No Reserve Price)

Megalodon - Fossil tooth - 11 cm (No Reserve Price)

Beautiful Megalodon tooth from Indonesia. It has undergone restoration in the root area.
Otodus megalodon (whose species name, megalodon, comes from Greek and means "great tooth"), commonly known as megalodon, is an extinct species of giant shark that lived from the Early Miocene to the Early Pliocene, about 23-3.6 million years ago (Aquitanian-Zanclean), whose large fossil teeth indicate it had a cosmopolitan distribution. It was previously thought that O. megalodon was a member of the family Lamnidae and a close relative of the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), but later studies reclassified it within the extinct family Otodontidae, a family that diverged from the lineage of the great white shark during the Early Cretaceous.

Estimates of the megalodon's size vary depending on the method used, with projections of maximum total length ranging from 14.2 to 20.3 meters.

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