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  • Gray shark tooth

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    By Max-fossils (edited)

    Taxonomy

    Gray shark

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
    Class: Condrichthyes
    Order: Carcharhiniformes
    Family: Carcharhinidae
    Genus: Abdounia
    Species: Abdounia minutissima

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Cenozoic
    Period: Neogene
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Eocene
    International Age: Ypresian

    Stratigraphy

    Tielt Formation

    Provenance

    Date Collected: 03/11/2017
    Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

    Location

    Egem
    Vlaanderen
    Belgium

    Comments

    A tiny tooth of an Abdounia minutissima. Bought from an old collection.

     

    The site at which it was collected, the Egem quarry, is now unfortunately closed.

     

     

     

    (Thanks to @darktheumbreon for finding the family!)

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    Max-fossils
    11 hours ago, Foozil said:

    Nice teeth! :wub:

    Thanks Izak :)

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