Carcharocles [Carcharodon] megalodon

[Jura <pristichampsus@yahoo.com>]

--- Tyler Kerr <tylerkerr@comcast.net> wrote:

>     Having just read Meg, by Steve Alten, a
> fictional book about Carcharodon megalodon, I was
> wondering if anyone on the list had any more info on
> the beast. Is it true for instance (I checked it
> online, but online sources are somewhat iffy) that
> it "just" became extinct as close as 10,000 years
> ago? From what I heard teeth have been found dating
> back only 10,000 years.

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A great place to grab information on long dead sharks
is elasmo.com

http://www.elasmo.com

It's used in conjunction with a seperate, shark
oriented mailing list. 

Anyway, there's an in depth discussion on the various
aspects of _C.megalodon_ including the infamous
"Carcharodon/Carcharocles" debate, which can be read
here:

http://www.elasmo.com/frameMe.html?file=selachin/gw/cvc_intr.html&menu=bin/menu_topics-alt.html

As for time frame, I believe _C.megalodon_ died out 3
mya. I don't know of any material younger than that.

Oh, and _C.megalodon_ would have so kicked _T.rex_'s
butt. (*fulfillng mandatory dinosaur related topic
:)*)

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> 
>     And speaking of which, did anybody catch the
> short article in Newsweek about a "Superpredator
> Attack! (In 10 Million Years)"? It's a fairly
> interesting, fresh point of view! (For those of you
> who did not, you can see it here:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8184938/site/newsweek/)

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I find it very strange that Lipowski can feel so
certain about these "inevitable superpredators" when
he seems incapable of naming even a single candidate.

Jason

"I am impressed by the fact that we know less about many modern [reptile] types 
than we do of many fossil groups." - Alfred S. Romer


                
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