The Counting of the Year Jar

Jan. 1. Time to count the shark's teeth we collected this year, and get ready for the next. A quick view:

At the very top, the pint jar full to the brim with run of the mill ordinary teeth, then 3 large "cookies", or vertebral growth plates from juvenile whales, with some shark vertebrae and a large skate mouth plate piece. Next row is from the "top shelf" window sill, Georgia's big porpoise tooth, some crocodile teeth, and the best of the sharks teeth, including 2 small Megalodon, and the biggest upper and lower Mako and Snaggletooth, and some random things. Next is a row of better than average Mako teeth, then two rows of better than average Snaggletooth uppers, and a small row of Snaggletooth lowers.

Some additional info on when we collected these:

Jan - Feb                142
March                     120
April                        217
May                        304
June                       363
July                         420
Aug.                        379
Sept.                       133 (we were in California much of the month)
Oct.                         458
Nov.                         242
Dec.                         174

Top shelf (no month known) 12

For a grand total of 2.964 shark's teeth, 2 lbs 3 oz in the jar, not counting what's laid out on the counter, or 973 grams for metric snobs. Also many miscellaneous Tillie Bones, stingray mouth plates, stingray barbs, scutes, and drums teeth not shown.