Isurus oxyrinchus, Shark tooth
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Description:
One tooth associated with shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) remains.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH39B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Chondrichthyes
- Order: Lamniformes
- Family: Lamnidae
- Genus: Isurus
- Species: Isurus oxyrinchus
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Sharks
- Object Id: PV5656
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