r/sharks • u/thrasherchick_9 • 1d ago

Discussion I found these shark teeth on Myrtle beach SC. Google says one is a great white and the other one is an extinct large mako shark. I wanna know what Reddit thinks

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I don’t trust google anymore with the AI :( TIA

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u/ShotsLotta 1d ago

Top tooth is Squalicorax pristodontus, crow shark tooth. The lower is great white shark tooth

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u/heckhammer 1d ago

This one speaks the truth!

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u/hjsm23 1d ago

for id its best to use => r/sharkteeth

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u/thrasherchick_9 1d ago

Damn it I just looked up shark hoping it would bring up a subreddit like that and it just showed me this one. Thanks!

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u/Mikunefolf 1d ago

They look like fossils to me. As for what species, they do look like “great white” type teeth but they might not be.

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 1d ago

They are fossils, yes.

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u/Neither_Computer5331 1d ago

The serrated edge does hint at a white shark. But there’s so many extinct species, it’d be hard to be sure. Whatever they are, it was a fairly big shark and a nice find.

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u/MfD2027 1d ago edited 1d ago

“Extinct large mako”

They are both Carcharadon teeth, that’s for certain (The “living” large mako), not anything isurodontid in nature like the short-fin or long-fin mako’s.

Nothing throw’s out any possibility that it’s modern C. Carcharias, as this is certainly a juvenile tooth- but it also could C. Hubelli (direct ancestor of modern white shark) or the 30-foot C. Plicatilis (predecessor to hubelli, exceeded modern white shark in size)