My grandpa...loved to fish an hunt and so did I....
One day....I was walking down this small creek and fishing it's holes....came a cross a fossilized big tooth. Probably a Mastodon...or something like it.
Showed my grandpa,...and he suggested I loan it to the local museum.
I did....along with a buffalo leg bone...that I had found also.
Many, many years later....I went to that little museum..to re-claim my dino tooth....and it was nowhere to be found. One of the past curators stole....anything of value,,and vamoosed with it.
The guy was a teacher in that town...and a jerk. Ticks me off to this day.....
The road on Cumberland Island National Sea Shore is literally paved with shark’s teeth. The teeth are also common around Charleston SC in dredge fill.
I have a friend really into collecting them and a real collector has them classified by species. There are books on the subject for avid collectors.