Carchar'odon, an extinct genus of sharks, the large conical and sharply notched or sawed teeth of which are not uncommon fossils in the Tertiary deposits. Teeth of the same character were dredged in considerable numbers by the Challenger expedition from great depths at the bottom of the ocean. See SHARK.
Carchar'odon
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 759
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