Articulated Helicoprion Flexi Shark - Buzz Saw Tooth Whorl

A flexi Helicoprion with jointed body segments. The preview shows a sleek, shark-like body with two dorsal fins, pectoral and pelvic fins, a row of gill slits, bead eyes and a tall tail, plus the animal's famous feature: a spiral, toothed whorl set in the lower jaw. About 22 cm long at 100%. Helicoprion lived in the Early Permian seas, roughly 290 to 270 million years ago. For a century it was known almost only from its coiled tooth whorls, which were reconstructed in all sorts of strange place…

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