ANCIENT SHARKS’ TEETH
HUNDREDS IN CARGO OF , PHOSPHATE. Dominion Special Service. Auckland, July 20. Hundreds of sharks’ teech have been discovered in a cargo of phosphate from Morocco which is at present being discharged at Auckland. This phosphate comes from a place 200 miles inland, so that the presence of sharks’ teeth opens up interesting speculation. Some specimens of the teeth were shown to Professor A. J. Bartram, of Auckland University College, who stated they would be approximately 60,000,000 years old. Professor Bartram identied the majority of the teth shown him as being those of the lamma shark, although there were several other species represented. Moroccan phosphate is mined by the French and railed to Casablanca, whence it is shipped all over the yorld. The cargo at present being unloaded at Auckland was brought by the steamer Newton Pine.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 253, 22 July 1929, Page 9
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139ANCIENT SHARKS’ TEETH Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 253, 22 July 1929, Page 9
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