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This is a tooth from the famous monster Megalodon shark, a species of extinct giant mackerel shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago, between the Early Miocene and Early Pliocene eras. They were among the largest sharks ever known to have existed.
This fossil came from spoil material dredged from the bottom of Saint Simons Sound in Glynn County, Georgia, USA, and was found by one of my friends.
The tooth measures 66.3 mm (2.61 inches) slantwise. That makes it only a small- to lower-medium sized example for a Megalodon tooth, some of which can get to be quite large. Examples over four or five inches long can be expensive, and examples from six to seven inches exceedingly so. Though not as enormous as some, this particular example is still respectably large and heavy enough that you could use it for a paperweight.
It has lost one corner- that often happens with bigger fossil teeth that came up through a dredge. But it is in otherwise decent condition, with nice surfaces.
This tooth would have come from a shark that was perhaps the size of a delivery van!
The Megalodon is of course legendary, and their teeth are very popular with collectors. They used those teeth to eat whales, and other marine mammals.
Caveat: I am not a fossil expert- most of what I know about fossil shark teeth is from researching the ones I have found.
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