Prehistoric Sharks



Cladoselache

Cladoselache

Fossil Site: Oceans worldwide
Time Period: Late Devonian (370 million years ago)
Diet: Carnivore
Size:6 feet long

Hybodus

Hybodus

Fossil Site: Oceans worldwide
Time Period: Late Permian-Early Cretaceous (260-140 million years ago)
Diet: Carnivore
Size:6 feet long

Ptychodus

Ptychodus

Fossil Site: Shallow seas of North America
Time Period: Late Cretaceous (90 million years ago)
Diet: Carnivore
Size:30 feet long

Cretoxyrhina

Cretoxyrhina

Fossil Site: Oceans worldwide
Time Period: Middle-late Cretaceous (100-80 million years ago)
Diet: Carnivore
Size:25 feet long

Ischyrhiza

Ischyrhiza

Fossil Site: Oceans worldwide
Time Period: Cretaceous (144-65 million years ago)
Diet: Carnivore
Size:7 feet long

Squalicorax

Squalicorax

Fossil Site: Oceans worldwide
Time Period: Middle-Late Cretaceous (105-65 million years ago)
Diet: Carnivore
Size:15 feet long

Edestus

Edestus

Fossil Site: Oceans worldwide
Time Period: Late Carboniferous (300 million years ago)
Diet: Carnivore
Size:20 feet long

Megalodon

Megalodon

Fossil Site: Oceans worldwide
Time Period: Late Oligocene-Pleistocene (25-1.5 million years ago)
Diet: Carnivore
Size:70 feet long

Stethacanthus

Stethacanthus

Fossil Site: Oceans worldwide
Time Period: Late Devonian-Early Carboniferous (390-360 million years ago)
Diet: Carnivore
Size:6 feet long

Falcatus

Falcatus

Fossil Site: Shallow seas of North America
Time Period: Early Carboniferous (350-320 million years ago)
Diet: Carnivore
Size:one foot long

Orthacanthus

Orthacanthus

Fossil Site: Shallow seas of Eurasia and North America
Time Period: Devonian-Triassic (400-260 million years ago)
Diet: Carnivore
Size:10 feet long

Xenacanthus

Xenacanthus

Fossil Site: Oceans worldwide
Time Period: Late Carboniferous-Early Permian (310-290 million years ago)
Diet: Carnivore
Size:2 feet long

Helicoprion

Helicoprion

Fossil Site: Oceans worldwide
Time Period: Late Permian (280 million years ago)
Diet: Carnivore
Size:15 feet long

Otodus

Otodus

Fossil Site: Oceans worldwide
Time Period: Paleocene-Eocene (60-45 million years ago)
Diet: Carnivore
Size:30 feet long