File:Petalodus ohioensis (fossil shark tooth) (Skelley Member, Upper Pennsylvanian; Noble County, Ohio, USA).jpg
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English: Petalodus ohioensis Safford, 1853 - fossil shark tooth from the Pennsylvanian of Ohio, USA.
This remarkable fossil fish tooth comes from the youngest fully marine unit in all of Ohio - the Skelley Member. The Skelley is one of several marine intervals in the Conemaugh Group, an Upper Pennsylvanian cyclothemic succession in eastern Ohio that contains nonmarine shales, marine shales, siltstones, sandstones, coals, marine limestones, and chert ("flint"). The Skelley Member consists of a limestone facies and a shale facies. This fossil was apparently eroded from the shale facies. The tooth is phosphatic - it is composed of apatite (calcium phosphate). It comes from Petalodus ohioensis, a Late Paleozoic shark. The tooth morphology of Petalodus indicates it was a shell crushing shark. Petalodus likely fed principally on calcareous shelled invertebrates such as brachiopods and bivalves. Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Chondrichthyes, Petalodontiformes, Petalodontidae Stratigraphy: shale facies of the Skelley Member, upper Conemaugh Group, lower Virgilian Series, Upper Pennsylvanian Locality: Noble County, eastern Ohio, USA See info. on a Nebraska occurrence at: gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013NC/webprogram/Paper218747.html |
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