3.45" Bizarre Edestus Shark Tooth In Jaw Section - Carboniferous

Bizarre Edestus Shark Tooth In Jaw Section - Carboniferous #231950

This is a very unusual and hard to acquire offering of a fossil tooth and jaw section from the Carboniferous aged shark Edestus heinrichi. These rare teeth are recovered deep underground in the coal mines of Illinois. The tooth is great condition with glossy black-grey enamel preservation. Most of these teeth are found broken or worn.

Comes with a riker mount display case.

There are two repaired cracks through the jaw.

Edestus was a very unusual shark only known from fossils of teeth and jaw sections. They could likely reach 20 feet in length, about the same size as a modern great white. Like its other relatives like Helicoprion, it did not shed its teeth as they became worn. This caused the jaws to become elongated and resemble a monstrous pair of shears. It is unclear how these sharks would have caught and eaten their prey with this jaw configuration.

An artist's reconstruction of Edestus. By Dmitry Bogdanov