Carcharodon carcharias, Shark tooth
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Description:
A shark (Carcharocles carcharias) tooth collected from the Cooper River (Berkeley County, SC), near SC Electric and Gas Co. and just south of General Dynamics Plant.
- Site: SC; Berkeley Co.; S of General Dynamics
- Site Number: NH30Kea
- Dimensions: H-5.669 W-4.75 cm
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Chondrichthyes
- Order: Lamniformes
- Family: Lamnidae
- Genus: Carcharodon
- Species: Carcharodon carcharias
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Sharks
- Object Id: PV2912
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