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Hemipristis serra

Hemipristis serra

Classification

Hemipristis serra is an extinct species of weasel shark which existed during the Miocene epoch to the Late Middle Pleistocene epoch. It was described by Louis Agassiz in 1843. While today's snaggletooth shark is not very large or dangerous, Hemipristis serra, which lived in the Atlantic Ocean mainly during the Oligocene and Miocene with relict populations surviving up to the Late Middle Pleistocene in Sundaland (Modern day Java, Indonesia) was considerably larger than its modern-day relative and had much larger teeth.

Distribution

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