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Class CHONDRICHTHYES,
The Sharks and Rays.


Left: Carcharodon auriculatus
Extinct great white shark. 
Note the "ears". Like all great whites, 
the edges of the tooth and ears are serrate.
Late Eocene
Ocala Limestone
Suwannee River, FL
   
Right: Carcharodon carcharias
Modern Great White shark

Isurus hastalis
Fossil Mako Shark
Makos are large sharks like the 
great whites but unlike them 
they have smooth tooth edges.
Late Miocene, Bone Valley Fm.
Near Bartow, FL

The horizontal specimens are fragments of 
stingray spines and the vertical ones are
parts of crushing pavement plates.
Late Miocene, Bone Valley Fm.
Near Bartow, FL