A Visit to the Hubbell Museum

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Dr. Gordon Hubbell and myself taking a break from the tour in his workroom.

Dr. Hubbell and Alex von Buldring discussing some esoteric point in front of one of several walls of extant shark jaws.

The main display room, with extant sharks on the walls, and fossil specimens in the display cases and drawers

Now we get down to the nitty gritty, one of the dozens of displays of giant shark teeth, these being an associated set of Carcharodon carcharias. Collected years ago by Dr. Hubbell himself in Peru, before it was a well known site.

As you can see, Dr. Hubbell has many associated tooth sets from the giant fossil sharks, which are a very rare find. Almost all fossil teeth found by collectors are unassociated, having been shed during the sharks lifetime, unless the shark dies and is preserved quickly these sets are not possible.

A set of Carcharodon megalodon, from

Florida I think. Below the displays are many drawers full of big teeth, and another room where Dr. Hubbel works on new fossil and extant teeth.

A set of teeth as found in the matrix of

Otodus obliquus, from Morocco I believe.