Great White Tooth ID#65

Common Name: Great White

Scientific Name: Carcharodon carcharias

Epoch:Miocene, Pliocene

Fossil Type: Tooth

Fossil Size: 1.54 Inches 3.92 cm

Location Found: Florida

Info About Carcharodon (Great white shark).

    Charcharodon is the genus of the great white shark (Carcharadon carcharias) and a few other extinct species. The great white shark is known for its immensity, from its length (up 21ft), to its mass (up to 4,500), to its bite force 9,320 Newtons (around 4,000 psi). Its diet consists of turtles, whales, dolphins, seals, seabirds, big fish and more. This shark species has also caused the most unprovoked known shark attacks in global history at 351 attacks of which only 59 were fatal.

References:

Fisheries, N. (2025, February 19). White Shark. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/white-shark

Species implicated in attacks. International Shark Attack File. (n.d.). https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/factors/species-implicated/