I live in Suffolk and find sharks teeth along the coast all the time. Pretty cool. Often have a competition with my partner, to see who can find the most. My stepson found one which was just under 2 inches long and wide!
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Looks like golems tooth
It’s a shark tooth, not a mammal tooth.
When I worked in an aquarium we had this vending machine that dropped the plastic eggs with 3 or 4 of these inside. Kids used to go mad for them and then immediately lose them round the aquarium. I’d always find them when tidying up and stick them in my pocket, immediately forget and jab myself in the hand with them 2 mins later.
Sharks tooth
Looks specifically like a sand tiger shark tooth (aka grey nurse shark). Theyβre very common in public aquariums – anyone in your household pick up a souvenir recently?
Palaeontologist here, that’s a fossil sharks tooth! There are two big formations that regularly erode out sharks teeth in Suffolk; the Eocene London Clay and the Pliocene crags.
Yours looks to likely be from the Crags, judging by the mineralisation of the root. The oldest of the Crag formations (the Coralline Crag) ranges up to ~5.2 million years old. This was a little bit before the major glaciations that make up the ice age, and about the most recent time global temperatures and CO2 concentration were above that of the present day.
This tooth belonged to some species of lamniform sharks, from my personal experience I’d place it somewhere in the genus *Isurus*, an ancient form of Mackerel Shark, and about 4-5 million years old.
It looks like my boyfriendβs one, but much smaller and thinner
Sweet fork
Can we have something we can understand for scale like a banana?
My first thought when I saw it next to a fork was that it was an odd thing to find in food.
It took longer than it should have for me to realize that was for scale lol
Baby shark doo doo do do doo!
Really, You just found it and are already trying to eat it
Never saw someone use a fork for scale haha, but actually a good idea
put it under your pillow for the tooth fairy
Your fox tooth is from a shark, and your banana is a fork.
Is that a Wilko Everyday Value Fork? Came in the yellow box?
Some sort of fossil shark tooth. I used to have one a bit like it.
It’s a fork
Needs a spork for true scale.
How big’s your fork though? Do you have a banana for scale?
When did you let a fox in your house?
I’m not in the UK, I live in North Carolina near Topsail Beach, one of the best spots to find shark’s teeth.
I’d take my boys, and later the grandson, out looking for them and find dozens of them some days. My oldest found a Megalodon tooth one time that was as big as the palm of his hand.
The best time to find them is right after storms at high and low tides. A sifter helps, but isnt required. Once you get the hang of knowing what to look for, they’re easy to find.
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I may be wrong, but I think It’s a fork.
I live in Suffolk and find sharks teeth along the coast all the time. Pretty cool. Often have a competition with my partner, to see who can find the most. My stepson found one which was just under 2 inches long and wide!
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Looks like golems tooth
It’s a shark tooth, not a mammal tooth.
When I worked in an aquarium we had this vending machine that dropped the plastic eggs with 3 or 4 of these inside. Kids used to go mad for them and then immediately lose them round the aquarium. I’d always find them when tidying up and stick them in my pocket, immediately forget and jab myself in the hand with them 2 mins later.
Sharks tooth
Looks specifically like a sand tiger shark tooth (aka grey nurse shark). Theyβre very common in public aquariums – anyone in your household pick up a souvenir recently?
Palaeontologist here, that’s a fossil sharks tooth! There are two big formations that regularly erode out sharks teeth in Suffolk; the Eocene London Clay and the Pliocene crags.
Yours looks to likely be from the Crags, judging by the mineralisation of the root. The oldest of the Crag formations (the Coralline Crag) ranges up to ~5.2 million years old. This was a little bit before the major glaciations that make up the ice age, and about the most recent time global temperatures and CO2 concentration were above that of the present day.
This tooth belonged to some species of lamniform sharks, from my personal experience I’d place it somewhere in the genus *Isurus*, an ancient form of Mackerel Shark, and about 4-5 million years old.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/s/GaQYzg6XOi
It looks like my boyfriendβs one, but much smaller and thinner
Sweet fork
Can we have something we can understand for scale like a banana?
My first thought when I saw it next to a fork was that it was an odd thing to find in food.
It took longer than it should have for me to realize that was for scale lol
Baby shark doo doo do do doo!
Really, You just found it and are already trying to eat it
Never saw someone use a fork for scale haha, but actually a good idea
put it under your pillow for the tooth fairy
Your fox tooth is from a shark, and your banana is a fork.
Is that a Wilko Everyday Value Fork? Came in the yellow box?
Some sort of fossil shark tooth. I used to have one a bit like it.
It’s a fork
Needs a spork for true scale.
How big’s your fork though? Do you have a banana for scale?
When did you let a fox in your house?
I’m not in the UK, I live in North Carolina near Topsail Beach, one of the best spots to find shark’s teeth.
I’d take my boys, and later the grandson, out looking for them and find dozens of them some days. My oldest found a Megalodon tooth one time that was as big as the palm of his hand.
The best time to find them is right after storms at high and low tides. A sifter helps, but isnt required. Once you get the hang of knowing what to look for, they’re easy to find.
my nan wants her tooth back