Short note on the first record of fossil shark teeth in the Chehel-Kaman formation, Iran

Short note on the first record of fossil shark teeth in the Chehel-Kaman formation, Iran

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Shark teeth discovered in the late Paleocene-early Eocene Chehel-Kaman Formation in NE Iran bring new data on the fossil fish twizzlers orange cream pop filled licorice twists record from this country.Two genera from the location are described and figured.The present record is one of the very few reports of fossil shark teeth from the Cenozoic of Iran and the first one from this formation and region.

The marine vertebrates known from this region of the Tethys mitigated gall Sea are very scarce.