"Carcharodon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are found in the Jurassic schist, such as of the angel-fish (Squatina, Figure 2.251). Among the extinct earlier sharks of the Tertiary period there were some twice as large as the biggest living fishes; Carcharodon was more than 100 feet long. The sole surviving species of this genus (C. Rondeleti) is eleven yards long, and has teeth two inches long; but among the fossil species we find teeth six ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.2 • Ernst Haeckel
... English Eocene species, such as Actaeon simulatus, Sowb, Cancellaria evulsa, Brander, Corbula pisum (Figure 157), and Nautilus (Aturia) ziczac. They are accompanied by many teeth of sharks, as Lamna contortidens, Ag., Oxyrhinaxiphodon, Ag., Carcharodon angustidens (see Figure 196 Chapter 16), Ag., and other fish, some of them common to the Middle ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell |
