What Did Primtive Carpet Sharks Look Like

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What did primtive carpet sharks look like.

I wish i could show a before and after pic of the amazing job they did on my carpets. These extinct fish looked like small sharks but had varying numbers of fins. It appears that sharks arose from within those says charlie underwood of birkbeck university of london uk. During the carboniferous era there were 45 different.

Many species are large but they are not considered dangerous to humans although they may protect themselves if harmed. Now my carpet looks like new again. The largest of these families hemiscylliidae contains the bamboo sharks and comprises 14 species within two genera chiloscyllium and hemiscyllium. Unlike its gargantuan cousin the megalodon galagadon nordquistae was a small shark approximately 12 to 18 inches long related to modern day carpet sharks such as the whiskered wobbegong.

Strange species of sharks like the stethacanthus a shark like a flat anvil like spiky fin the eugeneodontida a shark with a tooth whorl at the end of their bottom jaw and the falcatus nickname the unicorn shark grew a long sharp horn on it s head evolved during this period. Carpet sharks are amazing. Carpet sharks are sharks classified in the order orectolobiformes sometimes the common name carpet shark named so because many species resemble ornately patterned carpets is used interchangeably with wobbegong which is the common name of sharks in the family orectolobidae carpet sharks have five gill slits two spineless dorsal fins and a small mouth that does not extend past the eyes. This order comprises about 40 species within seven families.

Carpet sharks is a group of sharks belonging to the order orectolobiformes. They are found in all oceans but are concentrated in the indo pacific and australian regions. Carpet shark order orectolobiformes any of about 40 species of sharks possessing mottled patterns on the body that are evocative of carpet designs.