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Description: | Specimen of a fossil fish (shark tooth), Carcharodon sp., collected from unspecified rocks of Tertiary (?) age from South Carolina, U.S.A. Collected by Captain Aitkenhead, 6th October 1885.
Teeth are the most commonly fossilised parts of sharks, because they are harder than the other parts of the shark's body. Shark bones are quite soft, because they are made of cartilage instead of bone. When a shark dies, its teeth decay more slowly than the other, softer parts of its body. The more slowly parts of a dead animal decay, the more likely they are to be fossilised.
The specimen was found in USA.
It is from the Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Chordata Pisces Aitkenhead Captain | Temporal: | Tertiary period (65 - 1.8 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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