Class Chondrichthyes
Fossil Gallery



Related interest:
Class Chondrichthyes Tree of Life

 

Fossil Rays and Fossil Sharks

Rhinobatos hakelensis, an exotic Cretaceous Guitar Fish Fossil from the sublithographic limestone deposits of Haqel, Lebanon

Palaeospondylus gunni
An Enimatic Larval Fish
Middle Devonian
Achanarras Slate Quarry, Scotland

 

Name: Heliobatis radians (Common name; stingray or skate); Order: Rajiformes; Family: Dasyatidae from the Green River Formation of Wyoming.
 
Acanthodes gracilis
Early Permian
Rockenhausen, Germany
 
Charcharodon megalodon
   
Charcharodon megalodon shark's tooth (3.6 inches) from the Bone Valley phosphate beds in Central Florida, Middle Eocene to Lower Pliocene. Charcharodon megalodon is believed by some scientists to have been the largest predator to ever exist on earth ranging up to 100 feet in length.
   
Limestone matrix with 34 teeth from same shark, Lamna aschersoni, from the Eocene-age phosphate beds in Morocco.