Pictorial Guide to the
Fossil Shark Teeth
from the Upper Cretaceous of
Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
CD-ROM
$19.97 U.S. + $5.00 S/H
This is an easy to use illustrated identification guide to the fossil shark teeth of Hornby Island. Twenty species are documented with brilliant photographs. Eleven fossil shark families are represented and include: Chlamydoselachidae (frill sharks), Hexanchidae (six gill sharks), Heptranchidae, Orthacodontidae, Echinorhinidae (bramble sharks), Squalidae (dogfish), Pristiophoridae (sawsharks), Ginglymostomatidae, Odontaspididae (sand tiger sharks), Palaeospinacidae (horn sharks), Sclerorhynchidae and a species of unknown affinity. The shark layers on Hornby Island belong to the Upper Cretaceous Northumberland Formation (formerly known as the Lambert Formation). The age is late Campanian to early Maastrichtian. The guide on CD-ROM is in pdf and opens with Acrobat Reader. This production is protected by copyright. The work can be printed for your personal library or saved to your computer. The format is 8 1/2" x 11" page size. The work is 36 pages long with 19 plates, 7 text-figures, 8 diagnostic key figures and a checklist of the species with higher taxonomic classification. Figures include a map of the localities with public access points, pictures of the collecting localities and a stratigraphic section. See pic below of the CD you will receive and a small pic of sample pages. Shipping is only $5.00 to anywhere in the world.
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