Title

New Caribbean Locality for the Extinct Great White Shark Carcharodon

Authors

Clare Flemming
Donald A. McFarlane, Claremont McKenna College; Pitzer College; Scripps CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

WM Keck Science

Publication Date

12-1998

Abstract

Carcharodon is represented by a single upper tooth (Fig. 1) which we extracted from the eroding Pliocene limestone wall, some six meters above the floor at the northern end of Darby Sink. Much of the tooth is missing, but the remaining portion includes features diagnostic of this genus. The tooth conforms in size and morphology to Carcharodon megalodon (Agassiz, 1843), an extinct great white shark.

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Recommended Citation

Flemming, C., and D.A. McFarlane. "New Caribbean locality for the extinct Great White Shark Carcharodon." Caribbean Journal of Science 34 (1998): 317-318.