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by TurdF3rguson 124 days ago
> is a shark tooth enough to count as a fossil

No, but a fossil of a shark tooth counts as a fossil..

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What does that mean though? Shark teeth are already mineralized (fluorapatite) so you can find two million year old Megalodon teeth at the Earnst Quarry in Bakersfield that exist just as they did in the mouth of the shark without any extra “fossilization”
Hmm, my understanding is that fossil refers to the impression of the original object not the object itself.