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Description: | Specimen of a fossil fish, Carcharopsis prototypus Agassiz, collected from the Carboniferous Limestone of Early (?) Carboniferous, Visean (?) age from Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire (NE England). Collected by W. Hutton.
This extinct shark's tooth has a serrated (sawtooth-like) edge that helped cut through the flesh of its prey. The teeth are the only fossil remains of this shark that have been found so little is known about it. Its skeleton would have been made out of soft cartilage. It has been preserved in limestone that contains many crinoid (sea lily) ossicles (discs) that tells us it lived in the sea rather than freshwater.
The specimen was found in Yorkshire.
It is from the Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Chordata Pisces W. Hutton | Temporal: | Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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