Carcharias macrotus, Shark tooth
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Description:
One tooth associated with sand tiger shark (Carcharias macrotus) remains.
- Site: SC; Berkeley Co.; Santee Rediversion
- Site Number: NH30F
- Dimensions: H-1.159 W-1.28 cm
- Era: Mesozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Paleocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Chondrichthyes
- Order: Lamniformes
- Family: Odontaspididae
- Genus: Carcharias
- Species: Carcharias macrotus
- Formation: Williamsburg
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Sharks
- Object Id: PV5068
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