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Great White Shark Tooth
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By ThePhysicist
Taxonomy
Great White Shark
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Lamniformes
Family: Lamnidae
Genus: Carcharodon
Species: Carcharodon carcharias
Author Citation Linneas, 1758
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Pliocene
Stratigraphy
Bahía Inglesa Formation
Provenance
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Dimensions
Height: 1.75 "
Location
Caldera Basin
Provincia de Copiapó
Chile
- bahia inglesa
- carcharodon
- carcharodon carcharias
- chile
- great white
- great white shark
- p(bi)cc1
- white shark
Comments
Identification
Teeth of Carcharodon carcharias may be identified by erect, triangular crowns with no nutrient groove in the root, no lingual dental band ("bourlette"), and irregular triangular serrations on the edges.
Comments
This tooth has a self-inflicted bite mark in the form of three parallel linear gouges in the labial face of the root made by serrations of another tooth.
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