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| In the News |
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The Megatooth shark, Carcharodon megalodon |
| ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF: Bruner, John Clay. 1997. El tiburón megadiente, Carcharodon megalodon. "De dientes duros y enormes." Mundo Marino Revista Internacional de Vida Marina (Septiembre - Octubre) 5:6-11. |
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| Fig. 1. Two recent shark vertebrae. Centrum on left has been cut in half. Red arrows are the openings for the dorsal arch base (dab) and the blue arrows are the openings for the ventral arch base (vab). |
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| Fig. 2. Megatooth and two of its possible early ancestors. Blue arrows
point to Lateral denticles. Black & white bars = 1 cm. Cretolamna appendiculata Cretaceous to Early Eocene => Carcharodon subauriculatus Early Miocene => Carcharodon megalodon Middle Miocene to Late Pliocene |
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| Fig. 3. Nine Megatooth specimens from Florida, Pork County, Mulberry UALVP 454. The 2 largest broken teeth on the bottom right are probably first or second anteriors from the upper jaw. The small complete tooth on the bottom left is possibly a seventh lateral. |
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| Fig. 4. The largest Megatooth specimen in the University of Albertas Vertebrate Paleontology collections (UALVP 15258) was collected from Venice, Florida in 1980 by the late Dennis C. Wighton. The tooth has a total height of 15.6 cm and the shark it came from had a calculated total length of 14.756 m (48.41 ft). |