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From the album: Lee Creek
Rhincodon cf. typus Pungo River Fm., Aurora, NC, USA a minute tooth from the biggest fish in the sea - the whale shark. Being filter-feeders, their teeth serve no known function and are considered vestigial.-
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From the album: Sharks
I ran out of room in the other display, so I split the collection into extinct/extant species. I probably still need another riker! For scale, the big great white tooth is about 2 1/4" slant height. In red are species that are endangered or critically endangered. The only teeth I regret having are the modern Makos, I had gotten them for comparative reasons (both are anterior, left is upper, right is lower). The fossil Mako is actually an I. desori (a big one!), but I included it since it's so morphologically similar to the extant species, and a few people would say they're synonymo -
Identification: Ray, Clayton E. and Bohaska, David J. 2001. Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, III. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.90.1 From Page 99 & 100: "The crown of the Lee Creek Mine tooth (Figure 15o) is sharp, slightly curved lingually, and has a perfectly smooth surface. It is compressed laterally, and the cutting edges are distinct but dull. A narrow and relatively long apron descends onto the lingual face of the root. The roots of these teeth are bulbous and are wider at
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From the album: Lee Creek
Rhincodon cf. typus Pungo River Fm., Aurora, NC, USA A minute tooth from the biggest fish in the sea, the whale shark. Being filter-feeders, their teeth serve no known function and are considered vestigial. -
My first post .... This fossil tooth was found on the beach in northern Florida last week. Out of hundreds of shark teeth, this is the first one I have seen bent like this -- perhaps a pathological variation on a normal shark tooth, or maybe a whale shark tooth? What do you think?
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From the album: Fossilhunter21's collection
Species: Rhincodon typus Location: Aurora, North Carolina -
From the album: Fossilhunter21's collection
Species: Rhincodon typus Location: Aurora, North Carolina -
From the album: Fossilhunter21's collection
Species: Rhincodon typus Location: Aurora, North Carolina -
From the album: Fossilhunter21's collection
Species: Rhincodon typus Location: Aurora, North Carolina
