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Jan Juc Beach, Surf Coast

Fossil site, tidal Source-confirmed findsGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Shark teethShark teeth
FossilsFossils

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Oligocene

Museums Victoria excavated more than 40 teeth of the megalodon relative Carcharocles angustidens, about 25 million years old, from a boulder at Jan Juc after a local found one in 2015.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

cliff falls, big swell, tide cut-off

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