REWORKED FISHES IN FALUNS OF TOURAINE
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Description Genus Species Family Origin
tooth of shark Cretolamna appendiculata Cretoxyrhinidae region of Savigné

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This species of shark did not live in the faluns sea. Its age is previous of several dozens million years and dates to the secondary era. Like many other fossils found in the faluns, this tooth results from the erosion of cretaceous sediments which bordered the sea.