Lot 14
LARGE MEGALODON TOOTH
SOUTH CAROLINA, MIOCENE PERIOD, 10 - 15 MILLION YEARS B.P.
Auction: 28 May 2026 from 13:00 BST
Description
a fine Otodus megalodon tooth, gradated grey-black in colour, with fine serrations, displaying a distinctive “wave” growth pattern at the base, only achieved on very large specimens
Dimensions
15.4cm (6.1 inches) long
Provenance
Excavated in South Carolina riverine deposits, 2025.
Footnote
Believed to have grown as large as 18 metres, the Megalodon (whose name translates as “large tooth”) was the largest shark and one of the most dominant marine predators ever to have existed. It roamed the ancient seas for around 20 million years until their extinction around 3.6 million years ago.
With skeletal remains exceptionally rare, Megalodon teeth are valuable sources of study, as well as highly decorative reminders of one of the largest and most dangerous marine creatures ever to have lived.
Each specimen here displays a different hue, influenced and coloured over the millennia by the conditions in which it was preserved.