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FS209 Carcharocles Chubutensis Tooth

6.2 cm. Long x 5.0 cm. Wide x 1.0 cm. High

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Classification: Metazoa, Chordata, Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes, Lamnidae, Carcharocles, chubutensis

Description: A tooth from Carcharocles chubutensis (a.k.a. C. subauriculatus), an Early Miocene ancestor of C. megalodon that has cusplets at the base of the blade.

Age: Miocene Epoch

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

Found by: hamsmth4

Custodian: hamsmth4

Identified by: batcat8402

References: Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter, pp. 52, 105.