OCTOBER
2006
What a treat to document this educational
feast, to be able to share with others. Dr. Hubbell has perhaps the
largest and best preserved collection of rare shark jaws and rare fossil
shark teeth, and associated teeth, in the world.
![](http://tellmewhereonearth.com/Photos%20Shark%20Teeth/shark-anim.gif)
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Assorted
shark jaws, a phenomenal collection:
![gordon8.JPG (38570 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon8_small.JPG)
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INTERESTING
SHARK TOOTH FACTS,
COMPARISON TEETH, DEFORMED TEETH |
How
big do shark teeth get? Here is a 7-1/4" specimen that is among
the largest known:
![gordon47.JPG (142692 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon47_small.JPG)
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Shapes
of different species of shark teeth: Shortfin & longfin mako, great
white, Six gill, tiger, blue, sand tiger, lemon, great hammerhead, spotted
Wobbegong, megamouth, bigeye thresher, bull, bigeye sand tiger, and
Greenland sharks
![gordon49.jpg (66098 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon49_small.jpg)
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Natural
colors of fossilized shark teeth, depending on the minerals in the soil
where they fossilize:
![gordon43.JPG (38126 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon43_small.JPG)
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A
shark's teeth are not attached with roots into sockets. They are
only attached to the gums, and move forward as the front row teeth fall
out. By the time this shark is 25 years old, it will have shed 20,000 or more teeth:
![gordon44.JPG (37518 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon44_small.JPG)
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Fossil
shark teeth from different countries:
Germany, Italy, Japan, Mariana Trench, New
Caledonia, Australia, Indonesia, Malta, Morocco, France, Belgium
![gordon32.jpg (70254 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon32_small.jpg)
Panama, Peru, Chile, Argentina:
![gordon33.jpg (68991 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon33_small.jpg)
United States: VA, MD, NC, CA, FL, GA,
SC:
Fossil shark teeth of Florida:
![gordon66.JPG (38662 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon66_small.JPG)
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Comparison
of Teeth:
PHOTO 1:T-Rex, elephant tusk, whale, antelope,
chimpanzee, seal, bison, sloth, pig
PHOTO 2: Spinosaurus, Saber tooth cat,
rattlesnake, bobcat, rodent, crocodile, alligator
![gordon46.JPG (141865 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon46_small.JPG)
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Top
row, normal shark teeth. Subsequent rows, various deformities:
![gordon56.jpg (78425 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon56_small.jpg)
Other tooth deformities:
![gordon58.JPG (36903 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon58_small.JPG)
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GREAT
WHITE SHARK & FOSSIL GREAT WHITE |
Perfect
great white shark teeth & mouth placement:
![gordon36.JPG (38471 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon36_small.JPG)
Deformed great white shark teeth:
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Two
magnificent great white shark jaws. The smaller is from a 16 foot
male caught in Key Largo. The larger is from an 18'2" female
caught near Bunbury Esperance on 7/1/91, Australia (jaw measures 32"
wide x 28" tall
![gordon3.JPG (39638 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon3_small.JPG)
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1987,
California, Craig Rogers was on his surfboard when it was it was bitten by
a great white shark that left two teeth behind:
![gordon12.JPG (36881 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon12_small.JPG)
![gordon13.JPG (36760 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon13_small.JPG)
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ASSOCIATED
GREAT WHITE SHARK JAW IN MATRIX
Dr.
Hubbell found the
only complete fossilized skull of a great white shark ever recovered (5
million year old Carcharodon carcharias), found in Sacaco Peru in
1988. Note the attached vertebrae. Photo with Dr. Hubbell (left)
and Glenn (right).
![gordon9a.JPG (163021 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon9a_small.JPG)
![gordon50.JPG (38833 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon50_small.JPG)
![gordon5.jpg (75202 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon5_small.jpg)
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Part
of an associated set of fossilized great white shark teeth also found in
Sacaco Peru
![gordon10.JPG (37570 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon10_small.JPG)
![gordon11.JPG (39259 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon11_small.JPG)
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Modern
and fossil great white shark vertebrae comparison:
![gordon14.JPG (38144 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon14_small.JPG)
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Carcharocles
Poseidoni, in original matrix, from Kazakhstan, the only known of its kind
![gordon22.JPG (40463 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon22_small.JPG)
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MEGALODON
SHARK & Chubutensis |
Carcharocles
(Carcharodon) Megalodon
Megatoothed shark grew to 60 feet long, and
lived from 15 million to 2 million years ago. Teeth grew to 7"
long. This is the most complete set of megalodon teeth every
found. These are casts made from the originals.
![gordon88.jpg (48254 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon88_small.jpg)
![gordon88b.jpg (72721 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon88b_small.jpg)
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Early
Miocene Megtatooth Shark (Carcharocles chubutensis) found on the West bank
of the Ica River, Peru in 1993
![gordon20.JPG (37611 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon20_small.JPG)
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EXTINCT
MACKEREL SHARK
Otodus obliquus |
This
large Lamniform shark grew to 40 feet. There are 146 teeth fully or
nearly developed, 40 embryonic. Most were contained in 3 pieces of
matrix, the largest piece with 64 teeth. Khourigba, Morocco.
June 2005
![gordon82a.JPG (37827 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon82a_small.JPG)
![gordon82b.JPG (37435 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon82b_small.JPG)
![gordon82.jpg (71962 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon82_small.jpg)
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Associated
teeth from this large fish-eating shark that lived 50 million years ago,
it grew to 40 feet long.
110 teeth, 34 vertebrae. Collected in
the Atlas Mountains Phosphate Pits near Khourigba, Morocco, July 2004
![gordon78.jpg (73446 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon78_small.jpg)
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This
set of 95 teeth comes from a shark that lived in our oceans 50 million
years ago. These associated sets of shark teeth are extremely rare
and very important to scientific study. They are the key to a better
understanding of fossil sharks and shark evolution.
![gordon79.jpg (69632 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon79_small.jpg)
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Associated
180 Echinorhinus shark teeth, an extinct Bramble shark, from Northern
Chile, the only associated set known
![gordon86.jpg (84679 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon86_small.jpg)
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Vertebrae
that are associated with one of the Fossil Mackerel Shark (Moroccan Otodus
obliquus) tooth sets above, still in protective plaster,
under Dr. Hubbell's display table:
![gordon65.JPG (39173 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon65_small.JPG)
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MAKO
SHARK |
Miocene
Mako, Isurus hastalis
This large Lamniform shark grew to 28' and was
the precursor to the modern Great white shark. 165 teeth in this
associated set, one of the most complete ever found (near Sacaco Peru)
![gordon85.JPG (36874 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon85_small.JPG)
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OTHER
WEIRD SHARKS |
Megamouth
Shark. The only known set of associated teeth from this rare Miocene
shark, found in Copiapo, Chile (5 million years old)
![](Sharks%20Photos/gordon23_small.jpg)
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Basking
Shark - Cetorhinus maximus, 2nd largest living shark species that
grows up to 30' long, eats plankton, has 1200 teeth in its jaw, caught off
the coast of Mexico:
![gordon96.JPG (134559 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon96_small.JPG)
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Whale
shark jaw
Rhincodon typus, largest living shark, up to
47 feet long, eats plankton, jaw has 5000 teeth. This is from a 10'
juvenile
![gordon99.JPG (139941 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon99_small.JPG)
(Tiny) whale shark teeth under a magnifying
glass:
![gordon48.JPG (139785 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon48_small.JPG)
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Eocene
Sand Tiger associated vertebrae
Jaekelotodus trigonalis
Found in Western Kazakhstan
![gordon81.JPG (39084 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon81_small.JPG)
![gordon80.JPG (38270 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon80_small.JPG)
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Frilled
shark jaw
Chlamydoselachus anguincus
New Zealand
![gordon67.jpg (50219 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon67_small.jpg)
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Nursehound
shark
Scyliorhinus stellaris
![gordon100.JPG (147185 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon100_small.JPG)
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Whiskery
shark
Furgaleus macki
![gordon101.JPG (144214 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon101_small.JPG)
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Pencil
shark
Hypogaleus hyogaensis, Australia
![gordon102.JPG (135263 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon102_small.JPG)
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Gummy
shark
Mustelus antarticus, Australia
![gordon103.JPG (143752 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon103_small.JPG)
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Roughskin
spurdog shark
squalus asper
![gordon104.JPG (144436 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon104_small.JPG)
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Australian
Swellshark
Cephaloscyllium laticeps
![gordon105.JPG (135616 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon105_small.JPG)
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Kitefin
shark
![gordon106.JPG (151129 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon106_small.JPG)
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Leopard
shark
Triakis semifasciata
![gordon107.JPG (147227 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon107_small.JPG)
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Plunket
shark
Centrasayminus plunketi
![gordon108.JPG (133149 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon108_small.JPG)
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Centropheass
Niauvang
![gordon109.JPG (133933 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon109_small.JPG)
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Cookie
cutter shark
Isistius brasiliensis
![gordon110.JPG (144646 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon110_small.JPG)
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New
Zealand Lantern shark
Etmopterus baxteri
![gordon111.JPG (147922 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon111_small.JPG)
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Birdbeak
dogfish shark
Deania calcea
![gordon112.JPG (138967 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon112_small.JPG)
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Cretaceous
Sawshark
![gordon6.jpg (68991 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon6_small.jpg)
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Sawshark
mount
![gordon1.JPG (39258 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon1_small.JPG)
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Bigeye
Sand
tiger
![gordon24.JPG (36944 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon24_small.JPG)
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Goblin
shark jaw
(still a favorite of Heidi's)
![gordon25.JPG (37320 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon25_small.JPG)
![gordon69.jpg (60504 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon69_small.jpg)
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Smaltooth
sand tiger shark teeth
(Odontaspis ferox)
![gordon26.JPG (38448 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon26_small.JPG)
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Fossil
blind shark teeth
(Brachaelarus species)
![gordon27.JPG (38883 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon27_small.JPG)
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Whorl-toothed
shark (Helicoprion bessonowi) found in Russia and in the Western U.S. but
no other part of the jaw or shark has ever been found, so they do not know
how it fits into the jaw
![gordon53.JPG (37428 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon53_small.JPG)
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Snaggletooth
(Hemipristis serra) modern & Miocene fossil associated shark
teeth. Fossil shark grew to 16 feet, modern counterpart grows to
half that length. Fossil teeth found near Ica, Peru
![gordon16.JPG (38481 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon16_small.JPG)
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Edestus
Heinrichi
300 million years old,
Pennsylvania.
This is 9 teeth in one section:
![gordon30.JPG (37773 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon30_small.JPG)
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Xenacanthus
texensis shark teeth (Oklahoma)
![gordon68.JPG (38884 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon68_small.JPG)
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Crusher-toothed
shark (pychodus mortoni), upper teeth
Lane County, Kansas, 90 million years old
![gordon41.JPG (37356 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon41_small.JPG)
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Cladont
Shark
Cladoselache fyleri, Devonian shark, Ohio
![gordon51.JPG (37659 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon51_small.JPG)
![gordon52.JPG (37453 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon52_small.JPG)
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Fossil
shark tooth in matrix
Petalodus alleghenensis, Elkville IL
![gordon62.JPG (37938 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon62_small.JPG)
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Teeth
in matrix
Petalodus species, Coleman TX, and
Paleozoic Sharks:
Symmorium sp (Indiana) and
Fossil Symmorid shark (Kentucky)
![gordon60.JPG (37166 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon60_small.JPG)
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Fossil
shark tooth in matrix,
Orodus sp. , (Indiana)
![gordon61.JPG (37512 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon61_small.JPG)
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Shark tooth in matrix.
Ctenoptychius
Species. From the Coleman Clay pit, Coleman
TX. 345 million years old.
![gordon31.JPG (37651 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon31_small.JPG)
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Crusher-toothed
shark (upper teeth)
Ptychodus mortoni, Niobrara Formation, Smoky
Hill Member, Upper Cretaceous (90 million years old), from Lane County,
Kansas
![09fl46.JPG (137374 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/09fl46_small.JPG)
![09fl47.JPG (130768 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/09fl47_small.JPG)
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Gordon
completed a model of the Winghead Shark, Eusphyra blochii
This species of hammerhead shark has the
widest head of any shark, equaling 50% of the length of the shark.
Found throughout the South Pacific and Indian Ocean
![09fl48.JPG (122283 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/09fl48_small.JPG)
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Small
Megamouth shark skull being prepped by Gordon
Update from Gordon 8/11/11 -I haven't done a
whole lot of prep work on it. According to Jose Castro the jaw is from a
male. He based this on the size of the teeth. I would guess that it is
from a fairly large specimen - in the neighborhood of 15 feet total
length. It was caught in the southern Philippines in March of 2009.
![09fl54.JPG (146980 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/09fl54_small.JPG) |
Cretoxyrhina
mantelli, Associated fossil teeth. This large predatory shark grew
to 20+ feet. An adult specimen, 110 teeth and a few pieces of
cartilage
(Kansas) May 2006
![gordon87.jpg (80232 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon87_small.jpg)
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RAY,
SNAPPER & other FISH JAWS & SKELETONS |
Bat
ray jaw
Myliobatus californium (California)
![gordon75.JPG (37792 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon75_small.JPG)
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Manta
ray skeleton (wow!)
![gordon76.JPG (38159 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon76_small.JPG)
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Shark
ray jaw
Rhina ancylostoma
![gordon77.JPG (37303 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon77_small.JPG)
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Barracuda
skull
![09fl50.JPG (144738 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/09fl50_small.JPG)
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Cutlass
fish skull
![09fl51.JPG (156451 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/09fl51_small.JPG)
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Alligator
gar pike skull
![09fl52.JPG (148150 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/09fl52_small.JPG)
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Cubrera
Snapper
![gordon42.JPG (37743 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon42_small.JPG)
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Spotted
Eagle Ray jaw
Aetobatus marinari
![gordon74.JPG (38526 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon74_small.JPG)
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OTHER
VERTEBRAE |
Megalodon
(Carcharocles megalodon, Miocene, 10 million)
![gordon89.JPG (37378 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon89_small.JPG)
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Fossil
great white shark (5 million),
Mackerel shark (90 million)
![gordon90.JPG (38505 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon90_small.JPG)
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Isurolamna
bajarunasi (38 million)
Snaggletooth (10 million)
Jaekelotodus trigonalis
(40 million)
![gordon92.JPG (39198 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon92_small.JPG)
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Comparison
of 18 other modern shark vertebrae
![gordon93.JPG (36364 bytes)](Sharks%20Photos/gordon93_small.JPG)
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