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A buddy of mine dug up a scoop of dirt with a backhoe thought he seen a piece of coal in the pile. It was not coal at all but a prehistoric megladon sharks tooth. Right here in Bulls Gap, Tennessee. WOW!!! is all I can say. We hunt these things when the wife and I are at the beach and never found one over say an inch long and dude digs up one right here at home. Thought I would share this picture of it with you folks.
 

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Wow! That is just awesome! Great White sharks are bad enough, but it's hard to imagine what the mouth of a megalodon would have looked like with a row of teeth that size. :shocked04:stretcher:
 
Dang,that thing is huge! I can just imagine the appetite of something that size.A true nightmare for everything around it! :shocked04:
 
I mentioned that to him Goat and he has no interest in finding the rest of it and is afraid if word gets out that he found this there that the government will send in a crew to dig on his property. I think I would love to find the whole thing. He found it while digging a water line. I would have sifted through every inch of dirt.
 
After reading this post I googled megladon and read up on them and it said during their lifetime they lost thousands of teeth so there's a good chance you wouldn't find the remains anywhere near there.
 
Nice tooth. It's in really good shape too. They can get a bit pricey as they get bigger. I would put that right up front in my collection if I found it. What a great display that is gonna make :happydance01: Congrats to him.
 
That is just so cool Mike :clapping: :clapping: I would have never thought that you would find something like that all the way up in Tenn.....heck I have never found one on the beach or anywhere else for that matter....I sure would like to know if you have any idea how it ended up there thumbsup01 A great find any day in my book buddy....congrats
 
Carl in Louisiana said:
That is just so cool Mike :clapping: :clapping: I would have never thought that you would find something like that all the way up in Tenn.....heck I have never found one on the beach or anywhere else for that matter....I sure would like to know if you have any idea how it ended up there thumbsup01 A great find any day in my book buddy....congrats
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Carl, my buddy lives on a brown slate rock hill side that you can find imprints of plants and small creatures just by picking up a slab of it and looking. He said a little research said that most of Tennessee was under water and that this slate was actually mud sediment that has hardened into rock over several thousand of years. My guess is the creature pictures that you will find on these slate rocks was things that were in this mud. I suppose it must have been good feeding grounds for them huge sharks as well. If memory is right, I believe these type sharks would get as large as either a school bus or maybe it was three school buses, I've forgot but they were huge as you can tell from the tooth and this is a small one.
 
Fossils, like gemstones and probably gold are located in every state. It's just the quantity and quality that suffers. I have some fern fossils that are local and are 100 million years old. They are beautiful and who would have thought that they are in the slate deposits up here. You just have to find the right layer in the rock and you hit a certain time period. That is one big guppy's tooth though lol
 
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