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First set of Carcharocles discovered in Australia


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Yay! Hope some good papers come out of this. You don’t hear much about the Oligocene of Australia.

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40 associated teeth (and part of the backbone), and Extraordinary preservation too!

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Wow! Did I say, wow! Amazing. But a question, is Carcharocles coming back into favor over Otodus for the mega sharks? This is the second such reference to the as Carcharocles instead of Otodus in the last month or so.

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This is awesome! If I found a bunch of huge pristine angustidens teeth sticking out of my backyard I would probably pass out from the excitement :D

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3 hours ago, sixgill pete said:

Wow! Did I say, wow! Amazing. But a question, is Carcharocles coming back into favor over Otodus for the mega sharks? This is the second such reference to the as Carcharocles instead of Otodus in the last month or so.

It never left style for some.

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Happy hunting,

Mason

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21 hours ago, Bone guy said:

This is awesome! If I found a bunch of huge pristine angustidens teeth sticking out of my backyard I would probably pass out from the excitement :D

I would go enter the lottery because my luck would be unstoppable at that point :)

 

On The Hunt For The Trophy Otodus!

 

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  • 3 months later...

A related paper is:

 

Korasidis, V.A., Wallace, M.W., Wagstaff, B.E., Gallagher, S.J., 

McCaffrey, J.C., Allan, T., Rastogi, S. and Fletcher, M.S., 2018.

 New age controls on Oligocene and Miocene sediments in 

southeastern Australia. Review of Palaeobotany and 

Palynology, 256, pp.20-31.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325278150_New_age_controls_on_Oligocene_and_Miocene_sediments_in_southeastern_Australia

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barbara_Wagstaff

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vera_Korasidis

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

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