Tag: shark teeth
-
Paper: New Janassid Petalodontiform (Chondrichthyes) teeth from the Late Carboniferous of Kansas, USA
Bruce and Rene’ Lauer have been very busy. They are listed as co-authors of a new paper about shark teeth from the Late Carboniferous of Kansas – “New Janassid Petalodontiform (Chondrichthyes) teeth from the Late Carboniferous of Kansas, USA”. The paper was published in the jounal Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. Abstract An associated…
-
Shark Teeth from the Bond Formation in northern Illinois
The journal Kentiana has a paper about fossil shark teeth from the Bond Formation in northern Illinois. The title of the paper is “First records of the chondrichthyans Heslerodus and Ossianodus from the Upper Pennsylvanian LaSalle Limestone (Bond Formation) of northern Illinois”. Kentiana is an open access journal associated with the Center for Paleontology, the Illinois…
-
New analysis of tooth minerals confirms megalodon shark was warm-blooded
Phys.org has an article about Megalodon. Otodus megalodon, which means “big tooth”, was a very large shark that lived from the Oligocene 28 million years ago up to the Pliocene, just 3.6 million years ago. O. megalodon is classified as a mackerel shark, which is not closely related to the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. …
-
Massive graveyard of fossilized shark teeth found deep in the Indian Ocean
LiveScience has a story about the recent discovery of a massive shark tooth deposit in the Indian Ocean. In October 2022, researchers about the RV Investigator made an unexpected discovery. During a month long expedition, while trawling for fish for an deep water biodiversity survey, the trawling net pulled up hundreds of shark teeth. The…
