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Virginia Eocene Otodus

This is a tooth from the Eocene Muddy Creek site near Fredericksburg, VA. Unlike the Otodus teeth from Liverpool point, the Muddy Creek specimens are pretty rare to find. I saw many more Echinorhynus, Isistius, and Hexanchus found than Otodus. This is the only complete Otodus I recovered from the site. It's not huge, but a decent size at 1 3/4 inches. It's from Bed B of the Potapaco member of the Nanjemoy formation. Notice the cusps have tiny secondary cusplets on them. On it's way to becomming serrated? Only a few million years to go. 

Age Eocene Epoch
Category Shark Teeth
Formation Potapaco formation
Location Muddy Creek, Virginia, USA
Species Otodus obliquus
Length 1 3/4 inches

ID1967
MemberBigRedMeg
Date Added4/11/2007

  

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