62 - Collectible fossils. A rare and spectacular giant tympanic bubble from a primitive whale. Approx. 10 million years old. Length: approx. 14.5 cm. Weight: approx. 709 g. A vital tool for balance and orientation. The most spectacular of the floating bones in the inner ear of a giant archaic carnivorous cetacean, an ancestor of whales and sperm whales, and a contemporary of the Megalodon. A legendary fossil, long shrouded in mystery, from the same underwater sites as the teeth of the megapredator. A rare fossil of this quality. South Carolina, United States. Miocene.

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