Description
Isurus planus Shark Tooth
- Isurus planus (aka Carcharocles, and now Cosmopolitodus)
- Middle Miocene Age
- Shark Tooth Hill
- Bakersfield, California
- Specimen is shown with a U.S. Quarter for size comparison. The Quarter measures .95″
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Cosmopolitodus planus, also known as the hooked-tooth mako shark or hooked mako shark, is an extinct lamnid that lived during the Miocene epoch from 23 to 5 million years ago.
- There are 2 main Isurus Shark Teeth that come from Shark Tooth Hill. They are Isurus hastalis, the extinct Giant Mako, and Isurus planus, the Hooked-tooth Mako
Drawing by Dietmar Weber (2002)
