Magnificent, large and heavy prehistoric shark... Lot 5326
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Magnificent, large and heavy prehistoric shark tooth 'Carcharodon megalodon', Indonesia, Chikalong West Java, 16-20 million years old, Neogene Miocene, unusual. attractive, aesthetically beautiful tooth in matrix with iridescent coloring and golden bourlette, no restorations, perfectly preserved in natural form, approx. 11.5x 8.4 x 2 cm. 130 g. Teeth from Indonesia are significantly rarer than from the USA and are characterized by an unusual play of colors and brilliant, filigree toothing on the edge; they come from deposits that were closed long ago and have only been on the market for a short time, optimal serration, fluting of the almost razor-sharp tooth cutting edges.Important for quality detection, an alternative method uses the tooth width of the upper front teeth to calculate the size of the Robber (estimated here approx. 12 m total length)
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