Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Scapanorhynchus texanus, Menuha Formation (Upper Cretaceous), southern Israel. Near-complete fossil of S. lewisii, under special lighting. Scapanorhynchus (from Greek: σκάφιου scaphion, 'shovel' and Greek: ῥύγχος rhynchos 'snout') [3] is an extinct genus of goblin shark that lived during the Cretaceous period, from the Aptian to the end of the Maastrichtian.
This list of the prehistoric life of Texas contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Texas. Precambrian [ edit ]
Ptychodus (from Greek: πτυχή ptyche 'fold' and Greek: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth') [1] is a genus of extinct large durophagous (shell-crushing) lamniform sharks from the Cretaceous period, spanning from the Albian to the Campanian. [2] Fossils of Ptychodus teeth are found in many Late Cretaceous marine sediments worldwide. [3]
The sharks were about 50 feet long, experts say.
The monstrous predator — which measured as long as a great white shark — belongs to a brand new species, according to a Dec. 12 University of Cincinnati news release.
Millions of prehistoric marine fossils were discovered beneath a California high school over the course of a multi-year construction project. The relics recovered at San Pedro High School included ...
Galagadon (/ ɡ æ l ʌ ɡ ə d ɒ n /) is an extinct genus of small carpet shark that lived during the Late Cretaceous period. It contains one species, G. nordquistae. It was named after the video game Galaga due to a resemblance between its teeth and the spaceships in the game, [1] and Field Museum volunteer Karen Nordquist.
Using the reconstruction, Eastman identified the many extinct shark species and found that their fossils are actually different tooth types of O. mantelli, which he all moved into the species. [ 19 ] [ 7 ] This skeleton, which Sternberg had sold to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , was destroyed in 1944 by allied bombing during World ...