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North Carolina
Wrightsville Beach
Fossil site, tidal Documented siteLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Fossils
Shark teethPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Why this spot
Miocene-Pliocene (reworked)
A couple walking Wrightsville Beach found a large megalodon tooth in August 2018, reported by Fox News; the beach sits inshore of the Meg Ledge dive grounds.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
surf, sun
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