Edit: looks like it is Megascyliorhinus cooperi I saw this tiny bit of shininess in the cliff today and was hoping it would be a shark tooth. I carefully removed a circular section of siltstone after putting some consolidant (B72 paraloid) on it. Luckily I did as it had a nasty crack running through the one side of the root. Back home this evening I removed the siltstone with a toothpick and water and exposed a beautiful shark tooth! Have a look at under 6x magnification, its a beauty! The tip is see through and still sharp as the day it got lost. It's around 12-million-years-old, mid-Miocene from New Zealand. Let me know if you recognize the species!
Date posted: 3 July 2021, 9:06
