Fossil shark, Scyliorhinus sp.
A complete 110-million-year-old Scyliorhinus shark, 100 centimeters long, from the Cretaceous limestone of Hjoula, Lebanon.
About the asset
Sharks have cartilaginous skeletons, which almost never fossilize whole. The Cretaceous limestones of Hjoula in Lebanon are one of the few places where they do, and this Scyliorhinus is a complete example at museum scale, 100 centimeters long.
The animal is preserved in a curved, swimming pose rather than flat, which is part of what makes the specimen a display piece as well as a scientific one. It dates to about 110 million years ago.
Sharks as a group survived the extinction that ended the Cretaceous, and Scyliorhinus, the catshark genus, still has living species today.
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