Western Kansas shark, now at Sternberg Museum, is new species

Western Kansas shark, now at Sternberg Museum, is new species

HAYS, Kan. – The chance discovery in Western Kansas of a fossil vertebra turned into an important and unique paleontological find – the remains of the first ever North American occurrence of a large fossilized skeleton of Cretodus, a large prehistoric shark previously known only from isolated teeth. This remarkable specimen,

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