Paleontologists have discovered a number of fossils in northeastern Colombia belonging to a type of flat-toothed shark that lived millions of years ago.
The Lebanese news agency indicated that these fossils belong to a type called “Strovodos rebicae” and were found in Zapatoca, about 250 km north of Bogota.
Studies have proven that this type of shark was living 135 million years ago in this submerged part of South America. The length of the fish ranged between 4 and 5 meters, and it had domino-like teeth that it used to crush food instead of tearing it as the current sharks do.
Edwin Cadena of the University of Rosario in Bogota and Jorge Carrillo of the University of Zurich in Switzerland continued for nearly 10 years to reach this discovery, while the scientific journal “Bear” published the Colombian study.
These fossils are the first fish of the family “Strofodos” to be found in the southern hemisphere, that is, in the area that was called Gondwana and was composed of South America, Africa, Australia, India and Antarctica, where it was believed that sharks play an important role in the ecosystem navy at that time.
Fossils of flat-toothed sharks 135 million years old have been discovered
