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Bretton Kent posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoThe species shown in the photo was named Alopias palatasi in 2018 by David Ward and myself in an addendum to my chapter on the fossil cartilaginous fishes of Calvert Cliffs published in Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. The entire volume is available online (https://opensi.si.edu/index.php/smithsonian/catalog/book/107).
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Bretton Kent posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
7 years, 7 months ago7 years, 7 months agoIt certainly looks like a serrated thresher to me, as the serrations are too large for megalodon. The mesial cutting edge is broadly convex; in megalodon from similar tooth positions it would be more sigmoidal. Also, although the shape of the root lobes is typical of the giant threshers. The one odd feature is that the neck appears wide on the…[Read more]
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Bretton Kent commented on their own Fossil #001931 8 years, 7 months ago
8 years, 7 months ago8 years, 7 months agoCollected at Stratford Hall (Robert E. Lee’s ancestral home).
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Bretton Kent commented on Victor Perez‘s Fossil #001700 8 years, 7 months ago
8 years, 7 months ago8 years, 7 months agoA really nice grandis.
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Bretton Kent posted a new specimen. 8 years, 7 months ago
8 years, 7 months ago8 years, 7 months agoBretton Kent has contributed specimen mFeM 49483 to myFOSSIL!
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Hi, @bkent – Is the species unnamed or you are uncertain of the identification? I can chime in some of our sharky experts – @vperez @bill-heim @fauve-wilson to share their expertise with you.
I think you have a typo in Chesapeake, here is some information I found on the group: https://macrostrat.org/sift/#/strat_name_concept/1021
Talk to you soon,
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Dr. Bretton Kent is a fossil shark expert. He is a professor of paleobiology at the University of Maryland. There is nothing I could add to his information.
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Everyone can improve upon their data entry, even experts. I wonder if this has since been published on, @bkent? Let us know and we can link in the publication.
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The species shown in the photo was named Alopias palatasi in 2018 by David Ward and myself in an addendum to my chapter on the fossil cartilaginous fishes of Calvert Cliffs published in Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. The entire volume is available online (https://opensi.si.edu/index.php/smithsonian/catalog/book/107).
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Thanks, @bkent. Is this specimen reposited at the Calvert Marine Museum or the NMNH? – Jen.
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Type specimen
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8 years, 7 months ago8 years, 7 months agoA new fossil has been added. Thank you for contributing!
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Thanks, @bkent. Is this specimen reposited at the Calvert Marine Museum or the NMNH? – Jen.