EXTINCT ANIMALS 



of the biggest living sharks on record, as 

 shown in Fig. 192. These teeth are found in 

 beautiful preservation in Malta, in the Antwerp 



Fig. 192. — Photograph of the jaws of a large recent Shark 

 {Carcharodon rondeletii), the largest spechnen of the kind 

 in the Natm-al History Museum. At a, a, right and left, 

 is placed a single tooth of the great extinct Miocene shark 

 for comparison. The space between the upper and lower 

 jaw is two feet. The fossil teeth are six inches in length, 

 and the largest in the jaw are two inches in length. 



sands, in Maryland, U.S.A., and in Suffolk in 

 England. In Suffolk they occur in the same 

 wonderful bone-bed of the Red and Coralline 

 Crag (see Fig. 192a), from which we get the 



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