Carcharodon sp., Shark tooth
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Description:
One tooth, missing a portion of base, associated with white shark (Carcharodon sp.) remains.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Seaboard Coast Line
- Site Number: NH21P
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Pliocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Chondrichthyes
- Order: Lamniformes
- Family: Lamnidae
- Genus: Carcharodon
- Formation: Goose Creek Limestone
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Sharks
- Object Id: PV2825
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