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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
Pisco Formation
Provenance
Collector: Black Hills Institute
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Dimensions
Height: 1 5/8 "
Location
Departamento de Arequipa
Peru
- carcharodon
- carcharodon carcharias
- great white
- great white shark
- p(p)cc2
- peru
- pisco
- pisco formation
- 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 is Early Pliocene in age, which is about as old as great white shark fossils get.
Fossils are now illegal to export from Peru. This tooth was collected by the BHI during a series of expeditions to Peru 1985-1990 under a government permit.
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