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You are here: Home / Archives for Megalodon

Former Calvert Marine Museum Intern Publishes Paper

2019-03-08

Explaining the Origin of Local Mega-Tooth Shark, Megalodon Carcharocles megalodon, also known simply as the Megalodon or “Meg”, is arguably the largest macro-predator this world has ever known. They populated Earth’s oceans for 18 million years, from about 20 to 2.5 million years ago. The immediate ancestor of Megalodon was another huge shark with equally […]

Filed Under: Top News Tagged With: CMM, Megalodon, tooth

SISP Releases Publication on the Fossils from Calvert Cliffs

2018-09-26

Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press (SISP) Releases Publication on the Fossils from Calvert Cliffs Calvert Marine Museum Curator of Paleontology, Dr. Stephen J. Godfrey, has edited a multi-authored volume published today. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology no. 100, “The Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, USA,” is online at https://opensi.si.edu/index.php/smithsonian/catalog/book/107. This website has links to […]

Filed Under: Community Tagged With: CMM, Dr Stephen Godfrey, fosils, Megalodon, SISP, verterates

Newly Published Paper Authored By CMM’s Paleontologist

2018-08-14

Just in Time for Release of “The Meg” Movie Calvert Marine Museum’s Curator of Paleontology, Dr. Stephen Godfrey, is the senior author on a paper published online today in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. It is a collaborative effort between Godfrey, Mike Ellwood, Stephen Groff, and Michal Scott Verdin; avocational paleontologists who found the bitten vertebrae. The […]

Filed Under: Community Tagged With: bite marks, Calvert Cliffs, CMM, Megalodon, Stephen Godfrey

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