Re: Prehistoric Sharks

[Larry Dunn <majestic_cheese@yahoo.com>]

--- Mike Everhart <mjever@southwind.net> wrote:

> Any ideas why they
> jumped  from the truly
> ancient sharks all the way across the Cretaceous to
> show Carcharodon
> megalodon?

Isn't it _Carcharocles megalodon_ now?  Or was it
placed back in _Carcharodon_?

> There are really a lot of well preserved
> late Cretaceous
> sharks from the Western Interior Seaway and
> elsewhere that deserve a bit
> of press now and then..........

I agree that _C. mantelli_ and its buds deserve more
press, but the rationale was probably as such: "let's
show the really ancient ones, you know, the 'first'
ones, then let's show the really freaking HUGE one
--it looked like the JAWS shark, you know."

That said, the evidence of consumption of a mosasaur
by a cretoxyrhina is just too interesting.  A shame
not to discuss that, really.

Then again, I'm continually outraged that
_Camptosaurus_ doesn't get more media coverage ....


=====
Larry

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