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The snaggletooth shark, or fossil shark (Hemipristis elongata), is a species of weasel shark in the family Hemigaleidae, and the only extant member of the genus Hemipristis. It is found in the Indo-West Pacific, including the Red Sea, from southeast Africa to the Philippines, north to China, and south to Australia, at depths from 1 to 130 meters.
Hemipristis serra is an extinct species of weasel shark which existed during the Miocene epoch. It was described by Louis Agassiz in 1843. [ 1 ] While today's snaggletooth shark is not very large or dangerous, Hemipristis serra , which lived in the Atlantic Ocean during the Oligocene and Miocene, was considerably larger than its modern-day ...
Hemipristis (from Greek: ἡμι hēmi, 'half' and Greek: πρίστης prístēs 'saw') [2] is a genus of weasel sharks, family Hemigaleidae. It contains one extant species, the snaggletooth shark (H. elongata) and several extinct species. Hemipristis has two distinct types of teeth in each section of its jaw. The ones on the upper jaw act as ...
The weasel sharks are a family, the Hemigaleidae, ... Hemipristis elongata (Klunzinger, 1871) (snaggletooth shark) Paragaleus. This genus has a rounded or slightly ...
The sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus), grey/gray nurse shark, spotted ragged-tooth shark, or blue-nurse sand tiger, is a species of shark that inhabits subtropical and temperate waters worldwide. It inhabits the continental shelf , from sandy shorelines (hence the name sand tiger shark) and submerged reefs to a depth of around 191 m (627 ft ...
The large members of the abundant Lee Creek Mine shark fauna that hunted near the water's surface included the broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus), Carcharias sand tiger sharks, Isurus and Cosmopolitodus mako sharks, Carcharodon white sharks, [18] the snaggletooth shark Hemipristis serra, tiger sharks (Galeocerdo), Carcharhinus ...
Researchers have discovered evidence pointing to the first known case of a porbeagle shark — which can grow up to 12 feet long and 500 pounds — being killed by a large shark predator.
Sharks portal; The Squaliformes / ˌ s k w ɒ l ɪ ˈ f ɔːr m iː z / are an order of sharks that includes about 126 species in seven families.. Members of the order have two dorsal fins, which usually possess spines, they usually have a sharp head, no anal fin or nictitating membrane, and five to seven gill slits.