Carcharias hopei, Shark tooth
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Description:
One right lower lateral tooth associated with sand tiger shark (Carcharias hopei) remains.
- Site: SC; Berkeley Co.; Santee Rediversion
- Site Number: NH30F
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Paleocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Chondrichthyes
- Order: Lamniformes
- Family: Odontaspididae
- Genus: Carcharias
- Species: Carcharias hopei
- Formation: Williamsburg
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Sharks
- Object Id: PV4625
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