Description
- Carcharocles Hastalis
- Miocene – Pliocene Age
- Shark Tooth Hill
- Kern County, California
- Specimen measures approx. 2 1/16″ long along the longest side of tooth. Specimen will come in the 3.25″ x 4.25″ Riker Mount with Label as shown.
Teeth of the extinct shark Carcharodon hastalis have been found in most Miocene and Pliocene marine deposits in California & Florida that produce shark teeth. It is also found in similar age deposits around the world. Long regarded as a member of the mako shark lineage, it is now thought by many paleontologists to be ancestral to the living great white shark.
