There is a world somewhere between reality and fiction. Although ignored by many, it is very real and so are those living in it. This forum is about the natural world. Here, wild animals will be heard and respected. The forum offers a glimpse into an unknown world as well as a room with a view on the present and the future. Anyone able to speak on behalf of those living in the emerald forest and the deep blue sea is invited to join.
And this is what happened with Megalodon during all these years! One people put a paper with an estimation, latter other people shows that is incorrect, other put other paper and latter is debunked. The size of this shark is very problematic as there are only teeth and a very few vertebrae that managed to be fosillize.
The conversation is very interesting and try to refute those estimations. Using Cretolamna, they propose a maximum size of 13.2 m and 20 tones for the largest known tooth by scientists and of 14.6 m and 27 tones for the largest tooth in private record. Of course this are just the estimations of a few posters there, but they suggest that the work of Dr Shimada is more reliable.
Who knows what will say the next document about this giant shark......
(06-26-2022, 02:12 AM)AndresVida Wrote: Megalodon size limit has been established to be around 20 meters long for a freaklish outlier female
GHC-6 is absolutely not an outlier, comparable teeth exist in other museums, privates or not, including the London one.
Using the same method MNHN CP62 belongs to a 19.9-21.7 m individual from Chile in the data from Shimada 2022 Supp Material about body size trends (see attached)
~20 m is a good benchmark for max sized cold water inhabiting female O. megalodon but teeth comparable or even slightly larger than GHC-6 do exist in private collections and in some museums through the world.
