Hybodus Cup

Hybodus
Cup

Caffè-Tè Cup (ceramic). The cup is illustrated twice – on front and back – with the same fossil animal and related scientifc information. That is why the cups are equally suitable for right-handers and left-handers! Moreover, they are educational and pedagogically applicable.

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SKU: 901002-1

 

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Height: 10 cm
Diameter: 8.5 cm
Capacity: 300 ml
Weight: 335 g

 

PALAEOLOVE artwork and art wares are recognizable due to their scientifically accurate visualisation that is accompanied by sound, science-based information. Our products are designed in Switzerland and analogously & digitally handmade in Switzerland and other European countries under the guidance of experts, true to the motto: «Science meets Design»!

The abbreviation «MIO» (= million, after the German national standard DIN 5008) – occasionally found on our goods and product pages to indicate the geological age of fossil taxa – is equivalent to «MYA» (= million years ago).

 

Depicted Animal

Hybodus hauffianus  FRAAS, 1895
2.6 M    182 MYA   

Systematics: Hybodontidae, Euselachii, «Selachii»/Se­lachimorpha, Elasmobranchii, Chondrichthyes
Habitat: marine, coastal waters; demersal

A shark from the Posidonia Shale (type locality: Holzmaden, southern Germany; age: Lower Toarcian, Upper Liassic, Early Jurassic) that lived as an opportunistic predator in shallow seas. Characteristic representatives of the genus have heterodont dentitions with multicuspid teeth. The body has two dorsal fins with large spines, a dorsoventrally small heterocerc tail fin with a long upper lobe and, in males, cephalic or head spines behind the eyes.

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