MeargleSchmeargl Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 I recently found this image with a shark's jaws preserved. Makes me wonder if a shark's full cartilaginous skeleton has ever been found preserved, knowing that it is rare for cartilage to preserve at all. Has a full shark skeleton ever been found? 1 Every single fossil you see is a miracle set in stone, and should be treated as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smt126 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 There have been sharks preserved in Mazon creek nodules. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Glen Rocker of PaleoSearch had this 25 foot specimen of a Kansas Cretoxyrhina mantelli at the Tucson show a few years ago. I believe it went to the McWane Science Center in Alabama. Cretaceous sharks from Lebanon are common. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinosaurus Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 found this online, website says it is a orthachantus shark. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 There are quite a few on the web, here's another one, but they are, of course, extremely rare. 2 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Several in Solnhofen, Monte Bolca and Lebanon. Ok, mine here are very small ones, but I have seen several exceeding 1,5meters 3 Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 One was found around 3 years ago in Calvert County, MD. LINK Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 If you count xenacanthids, they have been found complete in a number of locations. “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 2 hours ago, Fossildude19 said: One was found around 3 years ago in Calvert County, MD. LINK I saw that specimen in the storage room at the Calvert Marine Museum- disarticulated, but impressive mainly because of the rare preservation of the cartilage. The American Museum of Natural History in New York has a number of complete shark specimens in their Hall of Early Vertebrates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 I believe it is the museum in Lincoln, Nebraska has a nice display of Paleozoic sharks from somewhere between Omaha and Lincoln. Really cool stuff you rarely see anywhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam28 Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Stethacanths shark (one that has a weird appendage jutting out of its dorsal surface) from the devonian has been found complete or near complete 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Almost forgot, bear gulch has a host of complete chondrichthyians. “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Haimirichthys comes to mind(as a more recent discovery).Posted it a while back .and Squalicorax,BTWAcronemus,Onychoselache,Gansuselache,Synechodus,Megachasma,Sphenacanthus.,Hybodus,Gogoselache,Ozarcus,Tristychius,Protodus from the Devonian of Forfar., Isurus denticulatus Palaeobates from the Triassic of Scotland(exceptional cartilage preservation) Nobody here has mentioned the Namurian of Scotland,I believe(Bearsden,maybe even Glencartholm) A lot of neurocrania are found(lesser known example:Belgian Oligocene squatinids) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 I'm a little confused with that Kansas shark. Pretty sure there is some artistic license allowed on it. I've collect a few things from the chalk, and seen a lot of stuff, but never anything that is even close to what that looks like. There is an awesome shark in the Sternberg museum that is a big pile of big teeth, and the complete string of verts. It is 100% real. That Kansas shark above looks too good to be true. Do you have any info on that? ( I just looked on their website, and I see that they have a full body Squalicorax sp. of shark that is even more unbelievable than the Cretoxyrhina shown above. No way that thing is 100% real) For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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KansasFossilHunter Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 On 1/5/2018 at 10:57 PM, Ramo said: I'm a little confused with that Kansas shark. Pretty sure there is some artistic license allowed on it. I've collect a few things from the chalk, and seen a lot of stuff, but never anything that is even close to what that looks like. There is an awesome shark in the Sternberg museum that is a big pile of big teeth, and the complete string of verts. It is 100% real. That Kansas shark above looks too good to be true. Do you have any info on that? ( I just looked on their website, and I see that they have a full body Squalicorax sp. of shark that is even more unbelievable than the Cretoxyrhina shown above. No way that thing is 100% real) Any piece by Rockers is going to have quite a fair bit of "artistic" license to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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