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by Dazza on Jul 10
World record unrestored in size meg tooth cat scan

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Description: A cat scan to prove that no restoration was done except to the enamel around the center regions on both sides, tip to root 100% authentic.

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4 Comments on World record unrestored in size meg tooth cat scan
  • D!NO says
    cool Cool
  • whalesend says
    You are one serious fossil hunter,how did you get a cat scan? Is the red area the enamel restoration? Great picture!!! Very Happy
  • Dazza says
    Got pics off the net when researching megs coz i love them... in my previous posts i mentioned that the tooth in question belonged to the late Vito Bertucci, http://www.megalodonteeth.com/7inchmeg.html ....THE RECOGNIZED NATURAL LENGTH WORLD RECORD MEGALODON TOOTH combined for sale with a HUGE MODERN GREAT WHITE SHARK JAW WITH 2 3/8 inch TEETH. This listing is something that only one collector has had an opportunity to purchase before and will probably be the last time these items will be seen again for many many years. For sale here is a COMBINATION DEAL ONLY for both the meg tooth and GW jaw.

    First for the megalodon tooth - while there is no governing body of shark tooth collecting this meg is widely recognized by dealers and high-end collectors as the LARGEST UNRESTORED LENGTH MEGALODON TOOTH EVER FOUND. This is an opinion that we will also acknowledge and fully back in writing. We have seen plenty of huge 7 inch and up teeth that were more putty than tooth. If you want to use this definition as a reliable basis then do not read further because you can spend the same amount of money on something mostly man-made but technically larger. This meg is exactly 7.102 inches long x 5.07 inches wide with absolutely no restoration to the tip, root corner, or anything in-between that would add to the length. Is this the world record by much - no. There have been a couple other natural 7 inch teeth found in the past 3 years that are 100 percent natural and almost as large but this still holds the record.

    History of the tooth - it was found by diver Randy Owens in a South Carolina river probably close to 15 years ago. When found the tooth was complete but had some enamel peel (missing enamel in the center) on both sides. Tooth was then sold to the late Vito Bertucci who commissioned extremely professional restoration work to repair the missing enamel (again, only enamel has been restored). While at a fossil show the tooth was accidentally dinged against the table and the very tip serration either almost came off or was nicked off. Either way it has been stabilized with a bit of fossil glue (we're talking about something the size of a pinhead here) and it does NOT add to the overall length of the tooth. If anything it makes it just a hair shorter than it was originally but it is almost impossible to notice. Vito held onto the tooth for about a decade before selling it to a private collector at a major fossil show several years ago. We acted as an unpaid broker in the deal. The tooth has since been held in that world-class private collection where it still resides to this day. To view detailed CT-scan images of this tooth verifying the restoration work and showing the nerve and blood supply paths of this particular tooth - never before shown, very interesting (at the very bottom of the page).

    Next for the jaw - this is something we normally will not offer for sale as we do not like representing modern specimens, only fossils. However the ter...
  • tyler keenan says
    sweet!
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