Question

3. List three locations in the U.S. where you might find shark teeth. 4. What parts of a shark fossilize other than its teeth? 5. Describe one shark from the Cenozoic era. What does the shark look like (include an image)?

Answer 1

1. List three locations in the U.S. where you might find trilobite fossils. Three locations in the U.S where you might find trilobite fossils are Texas, Michigan, and California.
2. What are trilobites and what geologic era are they from? What does a trilobite look like (include an image)? Trilobites are a fossil group of extinct marine arachnomorph arthropods that form the class Trilobita.Trilobites form one of the earliest known groups of arthropods. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the Atdabanian stage of the Early Cambrian period. 3. List three locations in the U.S. where you might find shark teeth. Three locations where I might find shark teeth are CALVERT CLIFFS OF MARYLAND, POTOMAC RIVER, MARYLAND, and AURORA, NORTH CAROLINA.
4. What parts of a shark fossilize other than its teeth? Shark skin, cartilage, and vertebrae can all be fossilized.Other parts that can be fossilized its coprolite, vertebrae, fin spine, rostral node, and its dermal denticles.

Answer 2

1. Florida, South Carolina, California.
2. Other parts of a shark that is fossilized is the fins, the spine, cartilage, and the vertebrae.
3. A shark from the Cenozoic era is the Megalodon. They were the biggest and strongest shark ever to exist during the era. It was very fast and a powerful bite force.
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