A paleontologist discovered a 91-million-year-old fossil of a shark that swam where cattle now roam on a ranch in Kansas. The long-extinct species was roughly 17 feet long and the size of a modern-day great white. kcur
Originally published on November 29, 2019 4:21 pmPaleontologist Mike Everhart had found a rib from a plesiosaur — an ancient ocean reptile — on the Ringneck Ranch in north-central Kansas in 2009. He returned in early spring 2010 searching for more bones.
“There was this round fossil on one end and another round fossil on the other end and, to him, it looked like a tree branch,” Everhart said. “I took one look at it and said, ‘No, Fred, that’s a shark.’” “When you’re picking up one shark tooth at a time, you don't get much of an idea of how big the shark is or what it looks like,” he said. “But in this case, we found, you know, like 80 vertebrae and 130 teeth.”— extinct mollusks — clamshells and invertebrate material in the area is common, Everhart said. Locating a shark in the area is not.
Houghton became friends with Everhart before the discovery of Cretodus. A retired pilot, Houghton was flying at the time and didn’t hear about the discovery on his ranch for a few days.
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