Abstract
The submerged continental shelf of Onslow Bay, North Carolina, preserves hardbottom limestone scarps with underlying clays as small isolated exposures in progressively deeper water seaward from the modern-day shoreline. These scarps formed as a result of wave- and current-driven erosion, transport, and redeposition of bottom sediments due to glacioeustactic sea level cyclicity and the migration of the ancestral shoreline since the Pliocene. Fossiliferous lag deposits containing an abundance of lamniform and carcharhiniform teeth, including those belonging to megatoothed sharks, occur adjacent to these scarps. These specimens include teeth from: Alopias grandis, Carcharhinus falciformis, Carcharhinus priscus, Carcharias cf. C. taurus, Carcharodon carcharias, Carcharodon hastalis, Galeocerdo aduncus, Galeocerdo cuvier, Hemipristis serra, Isurus oxyrinchus, Negaprion brevirostris, Otodus chubutensis, Otodus megalodon, Parotodus benedinii, Physogaleus contortus, and Rhizoprionodon sp. Comparison of biostratig...
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