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Isurus planus Shark Tooth #10

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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
Isurus Hastalis Tooth

Drawing by Dietmar Weber (2002)