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FS235 Large Tiger Shark Tooth

4.15 cm. Long x 3.6 cm. Wide x 1.0 cm. High

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Classification: Metazoa, Chordata, Chondrichthyes, Carcharhiniformes, Carcharhinidae, Galeocerdo, cuvier

Description: Modern tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) tooth.

Age: Miocene Epoch to Pleistocene

Location Found: United States, South Carolina

Found by: MarkP

Custodian: MarkP

Identified by: bob, hemipristis

References: Florida's Fossils, pp. 100-101. Fossil Sharks of the Chesapeake Bay Region, pp.84-86