Carcharocles angustidens, Shark tooth
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Description:
One tooth associated with the remains of a juvenile megatoothed shark (Carcharocles angustidens). This tooth is included in a group of teeth collected as part of an excavation of the Chandler Bridge formation in Dorchester Co., South Carolina (PV21 through PV34).
Publication: Miller, Addison E., Gibson, Matthew L., Bossenecker, Robert W. 2021. A megatoothed shark (Carcharocles angustidens) nursery in the Oligocene Charleston Embayment, South Carolina, USA. Palaeontologica Electronica, 24(2):a19.
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.;Chandler Bridge Bed 3
- Site Number: NH40Cdc
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Chondrichthyes
- Order: Lamniformes
- Family: Otodontidae
- Genus: Carcharocles
- Species: Carcharocles angustidens
- Formation: Chandler Bridge
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Sharks
- Object Id: PV28
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