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How paleontologists are using fossilized shark teeth to date the past

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The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ancient times.

Florida fossil sites are unique in that they possess some of the richest fossil sediments for important times in geologic history.

Florida Museum of Natural History has over 115,000 shark tooth specimens from Florida alone.

Ground sloths are not found at Montbrook site (5.85 million years old ) but are found at Palmetto Fauna Bone Valley site.

Bruce J. MacFadden is a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Florida .

Stephanie Killingsworth is a Ph.D. student in geological sciences at the U.S ..

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