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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 73, 19 December 1928, Page 11

Mr. Sidney Fry, a geologist of experience, writing to Mr. W. S. Clark, of Cobden, who" has possession of the two fossil shark’s t’eeth recently found in the Greymouth Harbour Board's quarry at Cobden, says that from their description they are most likely to be teeth of the carcharodon megalodon, a huge extinct shark over 30 feet in length (states an exchange). The Cobden limestones are included in the horizons of the Oamaru series. They are of the miocene age, and the shark remains were no doubt embedded in them millions of years ago. “An interesting thing about sharks,” says Mr. Fry, “is that, being cartilaginous fish, they do not leave an enduring bony skeleton like whales. The only bony materials of the shark are the teeth, and they are the parts usually found in the fossil state. There are a number of teeth of the carcharodon megalodon in the Dominion Museum at Wellington. obtained mostly from Cape Foulwind.” (The cable news In this Issue accredited to the London "’rimes” has appeared In that Journal, but only where expressly stated Is such news the editorial opinion ot t'SChe