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Shark Teeth ID


PalaeoArt

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Spent a few hours at Flag Ponds Nature Park near Calvert Cliffs, Maryland and found a few shark teeth. I'd be grateful for any help identifying these last two teeth. The first looks a little meg-like but is very small (perhaps posterior??) and the second smaller tooth has very interesting notches on either side of the tooth - I thought this might be Bronze Whaler. Thoughts?

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Hmm.. Based on this wonderful guide http://www.fossilguy.com/sites/calvert/calv_srk.htm#carcharinus , it says that there are mainly three types of Carcharhinus sharks found, but it is very difficult to distinguish between the species based on teeth alone due to how near-identical they look, so most people just dub them as simply Carcharhinus sp. 

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