Decided to take a stab at restoring the sharks found at a site in Madagascar called Nosy Makamby. Several other shark genera are referred and there are rays, among other animals preserved here, but I focused only on the Miocene shark genera described in a 2015 paper by Andrianavolana et al. -Carcharocles megalodon: tried not to go for a carbon copy of a great white as most do, but when you scale up Cretolamna (the only completely known otodontid related to it), you essentially get that. However, the fins are based more off other giant sharks such as basking sharks. -Carcharhinus priscus: appearance based off of modern reef sharks which belong to the same genus. -Carcharhinus sp.: another member of the same genus though of a different genus, appearance based off of Galapagos sharks to which it was closely related. -Squatina sp.: an unknown species of angelshark, as angelshark teeth are extremely hard to differentiate. Obviously based off modern angelsharks. -Galeocerdo mayumbensis: modern tiger sharks are the only representatives of this genus, so this species is based off of them complete with patterning to help differentiate it here. Its teeth are similar in size to modern tiger sharks, so I put it at around the same size. -Sphyrna sp.: a species of hammerhead shark, I'm not certain if the size is accurate but the referred tooth is quite smaller than that of a great hammerhead which ranges from 11-20ft long. Obviously, since only a tooth is known, it is uncertain what head shape it would have had - I went with the "classic" hammerhead shape. -Hemipristis serra: a giant snaggletooth shark that is generally estimated at 23ft in length. Of course, based off snaggletooths in appearance. -Rhizoprionodon ficheuri: it is hard to find exact tooth sizes for the Rhizoprionodon genus, so this is based off a rough estimate of a picture of a sharpnose shark, which reach 4-5ft long. I'll probably come back to restore the rays and perhaps the other fauna of Nosy Makamby as well.
