
One wonders what remains of Carcharodon Megalodon, besides teeth, could ever have been found since their, and other sharks' skeletons totally consist of very perishable cartilage. Not bone.
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My data peg MP at 1,57 MYA, and CM's extinction at 1,5 MYA. If one assumes those figures are absolute, then they overlap. Even if they are fuzzy they still overlap. Thus HE/MP and CM coexisted in time. And geographically HE/MP must have negotiated CM's habitat in order to reach Java. Which he did. All that is assuming, as you a.o. do, that Sunda Strait (already) was a deep trench separating Sumatra and Java, and that it was the first deep water that HE/MP crossed on his trek from Africa. (Sounds like reaching to me).Digit wrote:According to Sartono et al the remains of Meganthropus Paleojavanicus in SE Asia post date Megalodon's extinction, so there was little danger of being eaten by one I think.
Digit wrote:No dispute there RS, but I suggest you check on Sartono's dating, they may have overlapped indeed, but the remains post date Megalodon's extinction.
In exactly the same manner as HE may have reached the Americas 1000s of years ago, but the dated remains say later. Got it?
I covered that with "fuzzy".Digit wrote:No I'm not. The point I was making is that the dated material post dates Megalodon's extinction, you could surmise from that, if you wish, that no crossings were sucessful untill after Megalodon went extinct.