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Description

  • Heterodontus
  • Shark Tooth
  • Miocene Age
  • Shark Tooth Hill
  • Bakersfield, California
  • Specimen measures approx. 1/4″ – 5/16″ wide and comes in the 3.25″ x 4.25″ Riker Mount with Label as Shown

Sharktooth Hill is a famous fossil locality in the Sierra Nevada foothills outside Bakersfield, California. Collectors find fossils of a large number of marine species here from whales to birds.  It is an area of land south of Round Mountain underlain by the Round Mountain Silt, a unit of poorly consolidated sediment between 16 and 15 million years old.