AN EXTINCT FOSSILISED MEGALODON SHARK TOOTH

AN EXTINCT FOSSILISED MEGALODON SHARK TOOTHthe fossil from South Carolina, USA, dating from the Early Miocene to the Pliocene epoch, approximately 15 million years old, in a black card and perspex display box,11.2cm in lengthThe earliest megalodon fossils (Otodus megalodon, previously known as Carcharodon or Carcharocles megalodon) date to 20 million years ago. For the next 13 million years the enormous shark dominated the oceans until becoming extinct just 3.6 million years ago.