07335 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Mosasaurus baugei it is a tremendously predatory

it is a tremendously predatory animal

The Ancyloceratina were a diverse suborder of ammonite most closely related to the ammonites of order Lytoceratina

Polysporangiophyta

Dixon 1850 (ray-finned fish)

Environments: (111 collections)

07335 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Mosasaurus baugei it is a tremendously predatoryIt has some glued fractures. Otudus is a genus belonging to the shark group known as mackerel sharks. It reigned the seas during the Paleocene and the Eocene (60 45 million years ago). It is a quite dominant species in the phosphate quarries in this sector of Morocco. This species has only been described via its teeth and vertebrae. As all the Elasmobranchii, the skeleton has a cartilaginous non osseous nature, what makes difficult its fossilization