Carcharodon angustidens, Shark tooth
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Description:
One tooth associated with megatoothed shark (Carcharodon angustidens) remains probably from phosphate dredgings in Ashley River.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Ashley River
- Site Number: NH21Z
- Dimensions: H-8.833 W-7.42 cm
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Chondrichthyes
- Order: Lamniformes
- Family: Lamnidae
- Genus: Carcharodon
- Species: Carcharodon angustidens
- Formation: Ashley
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Sharks
- Object Id: PV7275
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