Tooth Study of a Recent Sand Tiger Shark Carcharias taurus (Rafinesque, 1810)  (This study set was prepared for elasmo.com under "Carcharias Dentition" slide.)

Comparison of two tooth types of Striatolamia macrota (Agassiz, 1843) collected from the Fisher/Sullivan site in Virginia. for discussion. From Mike Folmer Collection. All teeth extracted from clay matrix on site.

Tooth count and graph of Striatolamia macrota teeth collected from the Fisher/Sullivan site. for discussion. Compare with tooth count and graph of C. taurus. From Mike Folmer Collection. All teeth extracted from clay matrix on site.

Tooth count and graph for Carcharias hopei collected from the Fisher/Sullivan site. Compare with S. macrota above. 

For comparison of Striatolamia macrota and Carcharias taurus:
Cunningham, S. B., 2000. A comparison of isolated teeth of early Eocene Striatolamia macrota (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes), with those of a Recent sand shark, Carcharias taurus. Tertiary Research 20(1-4): pp 17-31.  Click here to view this paper as a .pdf file (large file 1.31MB).

Photos taken of an extremely rare Aquia formation (Maryland Paleocene) Notidanodon loozi ( Vincent, 1876 ). 

Photo study of Anomotodon novus (Winkler 1874) From Mike Folmer Collection. All teeth extracted from clay matrix on site.

Photo study of Anomotodon sheppyensis (Casier 1966) From Mike Folmer Collection. All teeth extracted from clay matrix on site.

Photo study of unidentified species from Fisher/Sullivan site. From Mike Folmer Collection. All teeth extracted from clay matrix on site.

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