Description
Squalicorax Shark Tooth
- Squalicorax falcatus
- Crow Shark
- Cretaceous Age
- Kamp Ranch Limestone
- Dallas County, Texas
- These small teeth will come in the 1.25″ gem jar as shown.
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Squalicorax, commonly known as the crow shark, is a genus of extinct lamniform shark known to have lived during the Cretaceous period. The teeth of Squalicorax falcatus are small to medium in size.
The Crow sharks – scientifically known as Squalicorax belong to an extinct group of Lamniform sharks. The fossil records of Crow sharks depicted that they lived during the Cretaceous era about 60 to 100 million years ago
There is not much known about the feeding habitat of the Crow sharks but according to some data reported, they were scavenging creatures that feed on the following items:
- Fishes
- Turtles
- Mosasaurs
- Ichthyodectes
- Bony fishes
- Dinosaurs
- Flying reptiles
- Marine reptiles
The sharks have a broad head with small but blunt snouts, they have a small set of triangular teeth with a curved crown and serration.
Drawing by Dmitry Bogdanov
