Fleeting from Stone tere mai i te kohatu - Sculpture - Fossilized Megalodon Shark Tooth and parrot feathers || JF117

JF117 || A size-able megalodon shark tooth recovered from the ocean floor during a blue water dive in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida with a small section of coral still attached to the tooth.

Megalodon Shark Teeth are fossilized of the extinct shark and this one is 23 million - 3.6 million years old. The tooth quality is graded based on size, serration, shape, color, enameling, and root intactness among other factors – so this sculpture features a distinct and highly graded tooth.

Hanging are hand-collected parrot feathers from an aviary in Washington where the birds molt seasonally (cruelty free).

The coral base is a personal beach find pre-antiquities act. Sculpture comes with a plexiglass rectangle covering to protect from dust over long periods of time and can be optionally/selectively used.

Sculpture Dimensions:

• Base and plexiglass cover: Black base 5.25 inch x 4.25 inch x 1/2 
• With cover on, the sculpture is 7.75inch tall (6.25inches coral base to top of tooth)
• Shark Tooth: A beautifully curved tooth at 4inch length measured along the serration edge tip to root diagonal || 2.8 inch wide root and .825inch at its thickest
• Coral: 4x3x1.6inch
• Feather bundle: Blue plumage feather is 3 inches of blue (for reference)

Artist: Joe Foster