Description

Squatina occidentalis
Middle Miocene
Round Mountain Silt, Sharktooth Hill Bonebed
Ernst Ranch, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA, USA

Excellent 0.25 inch Angel shark tooth.

Shark

Squatina, the angel shark genus, is among the oldest of the modern sharks dating back to the Late Jurassic at least.   The teeth from the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed are generally 5-10 mm wide (roughly 1/4 – 1/2 inch) across the root and not as high as they are wide.