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FS18 Lemon Shark Tooth

0.6 cm. Long x 0.5 cm. Wide x 0.15 cm. High

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Classification: Metazoa, Chordata, Chondrichthyes, Carcharhiniformes, Carcharhinidae, Negaprion, brevirostris

Description: PaleoPebbles: Shark tooth. I am going to say it is a lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris), but I am open to criticism.

Age: Miocene Epoch to Pleistocene

Location Found: United States, Florida, Peace River, FL

Found by: Ed DeRouin

Custodian: fossilweb

Identified by: Ed DeRouin

References: The Fossil Vertbrates of Florida, pp. 87-88.
Bill Heim on Sharks on elasmo.com