Description

Early Eocene

Nanjemoy Formation

Fisher-Sullivan site, Stafford County, VA, USA

Excellent 0.2 inch tooth

Shark,

Abdounia is a genus of shark belonging the Order Carcharhiniformes.  It appeared in the Late Paleocene and died out around the end of the Eocene with several species in between.  It is at least close to the ancestry of the modern genus, Carcharhinus.