Meg MawL Feeding Damage (1) to Megalodon Shark Teeth

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TOOTH ON BONE DAMAGE TO SHARK TEETH
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2.) Feeding damage which occurs while in the shark's mouth - tooth on bone.

The tooth pictured below is a good example of this type of damage. When the shark that owned this tooth bit into the prey animal, the tip of the tooth first contacted a rib bone which nicked the tip on the left-hand side. As the tooth slid down the right-hand side of the rib, some of the serrations on the left-hand edge of the tooth were sheared off. As the tooth went further into the prey animal's rib cage, the tooth jammed itself in between two ribs destroying the serrations and chipping the blade edge and enamel on both sides of the tooth.

The tooth in the photo below has an outstanding root, enamel, bourrelet and serrations. The tip was utterly destroyed when it contacted prey animal bone, probably the broad, flat rib of a huge whale.

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