Cretaceous shark
| Description: |
The limestone deposits of Lebanon are well known for their excellent preservation of marine creatures. When these deposits were first formed, this ancient shark was quickly buried by fine-grained sediments which helped to preserve this animal in minute detail for over 112 million years. |
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| Source: |
http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/tcm/id/353 |
| Collection: |
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
This file is licensed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. |
| Subjects: |
Fossils Marine animals, Fossil Sharks Predatory animals Lebanon |
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