Description
- Heterodontus
- Shark Tooth
- Miocene Age
- Shark Tooth Hill
- Bakersfield, California
- Specimen measures approx. 1/4″ – 5/16″ wide and comes in the 3.25″ x 4.25″ Riker Mount with Label as Shown
Sharktooth Hill is a famous fossil locality in the Sierra Nevada foothills outside Bakersfield, California. Collectors find fossils of a large number of marine species here from whales to birds. It is an area of land south of Round Mountain underlain by the Round Mountain Silt, a unit of poorly consolidated sediment between 16 and 15 million years old.
