Parotodus Benedenii - 2.36 Inches, Rare Shark Tooth. Real Fossil Shark Tooth, Shark Teeth Fossils, Bene Tooth
Parotodus Benedenii teeth are often prized by fossil collectors due to their rarity. The scarcity of fossils is because Parotodus Benedenii (Benny) likely primarily inhabited open oceans far away from the continents. The teeth of Parotodus are distinctively curved and rarely show feeding damage, which suggests that it mainly preyed on soft-bodied animals. Paleontologists speculate that this included other sharks, including the contemporaneous Megalodon.
All of the shop's shark teeth are found by me diving in around 100 feet of water off of the North Carolina coast. The teeth are from the Miocene period and are between 18 - 2.5 million years old. All teeth are 100% original with no restoration or repair.