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North Carolina
Ocean Isle Beach
Fossil site, tidal Documented siteLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Shark teethPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Why this spot
Cretaceous to Pliocene (dredged, mixed)
WALTER Magazine quotes shark tooth author Dr. Ashley Oliphant finding one or two megalodon teeth per year at Ocean Isle, where dredged sand supplies abundant teeth.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
surf, sun
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