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Cretoxyrhina (/ k r ɪ ˌ t ɒ k s i ˈ r h aɪ n ə /; meaning 'Cretaceous sharp-nose') is an extinct genus of large mackerel shark that lived about 107 to 73 million years ago during the late Albian to late Campanian of the Late Cretaceous.
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]
Kavachi is one of the most active submarine volcanoes in the south-west Pacific Ocean. [1] Located south of Vangunu Island in the Solomon Islands, it is named after a sea god of the New Georgia Group islanders and is also referred to locally as Rejo te Kavachi ("Kavachi's oven"). The volcano has become emergent and then been eroded back into ...
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The Kavachi volcano in the Solomon Islands is an underwater volcano that was dubbed a sharkcano after a 2015 expedition discovered sharks living within it. ... The post NASA captures ‘Sharkcano ...
Archaeolamna (from Greek arche which turned into archaeo and Lamna, an extinct shark genus) [1] is an extinct genus of mackerel sharks that lived during the Cretaceous.It contains three valid species (one with two subspecies) which have been found in Europe, North America, and Australia.
This image captured May 14, 2022, by NASA's Landsat 9, shows a plume of discolored water being emitted from the 'Sharkcano,' an underwater volcano that lies about 15 miles south of Vangunu Island.
The lost shark (Carcharhinus obsoletus), [a] previously known as the false smalltail shark, is a possibly extinct species of requiem shark (family Carcharhinidae). It is known only from the Western Central Pacific Ocean , in the southern South China Sea .