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Currently the caption reads (Multiple Image: FOOTER) Left image:Chesapeake megalodon tooth (Fig. 7) excavated from a Hopewell burial mound. Right image:Colonna's 1616 comparison of a megalodon (top left) and great white tooth (right).
However, the 1616 picture depicts the right-hand tooth [labeled Great White] as big and upper left-hand tooth [labeled Megalodon] as small. Perhaps the 1616 artists intended to magnify the Great White detail; or perhaps the caption now is reversed. In real life the dimension of megalodon teeth is big and the great white teeth is smaller. Therefore, either the 1616 picture is misleading by magnification, or else the Wikipedia caption is reversed. Gpwitteveen (talk) 18:57, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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