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Description: | Specimen of a fossil fish, Acrodus nobilis, collected from the Lower Lias of Early Jurassic age from Lyme Regis, Dorset (SW England).
Acrodus nobilis was a shark that lived during the Jurassic period. It had blunt teeth that were covered in shallow ridges, and probably ate fish, shellfish and crustaceans like lobsters. The teeth of sharks are hard, and so are more likely to be fossilised than their skeletons which are made of cartilage, which is softer than bone.
The specimen was found in Dorset.
It is from the Jurassic period (206 - 144 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Chordata Pisces | Temporal: | Jurassic period (206 - 144 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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