Colorful Isurus Shortfin Mako Fossil Shark Tooth

Name: Isurus oxyrynchus

Age: Pliocene (3.5 million years ago)

Size (25.4mm=1 inch): 36 mm long (diagonal), 19 mm wide (root included).

Location: Austin Pit, Ridgeville, South Carolina

Code: FFT04

Price: $40.00 - sold

Description: This is a fine example of a tooth from the extant Shortfin Mako Shark Isurus oxyrynchus . These sharks are the fastest shark in the sea, and have been clocked at over 30kilometers/hour.. Teeth are highly variable in color, a consequence of the minerals in the water that formed the deposits. Given the rule of an inch of tooth equals 10 feet of shark, this one came from a mako some 15 feet in length. It comes in a fine Riker-type display box.

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