2.7" Quality Megalodon Shark Tooth Serrated Fossil Natural Miocene Age COA

Location: South Carolina, USA Weight: 1.6 Ounces  Dimensions: 2.7 Inches Long, 2.3 Inches Wide, 0.4 Inches Thick  Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. The item pictured is the one you will receive. Early Miocene to Pliocene, 5-23 million years old This is a real fossil. Megalodon, meaning “big tooth”, is an extinct species of shark that lived approximately 23 to 5 million years ago, during the Early Miocene to the end of the Pliocene. It was formerly thought to belong to the family Lamnidae, making it closely related to the great white shark.  As one of the largest predators to have ever lived, megalodon captures people’s imagination — and for good reason. But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still lurking in the dark depths of the ocean? The 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 ocea