Carcharodon angustidens, Shark vertebrae
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Description:
Eleven vertebrae with ten in sequential series, associated with a megatooth shark's remains (Carcharodon angustidens). Three of the vertebrae are fused from an injury sustained, and healed, prior to death.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Covington Hills Sub.
- Site Number: NH20I
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Chondrichthyes
- Order: Lamniformes
- Family: Lamnidae
- Genus: Carcharodon
- Species: Carcharodon angustidens
- Formation: Chandler Bridge
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Sharks
- Object Id: PV7299
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