07325 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Enchodus Teeth Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae

Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae

Parent taxon: Equisetales according to D

Age range: 466

Thomas Joyce & Gary L

Phosphate turtles belong to the two major groups of extant turtles: Pleurodira

07325 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Enchodus Teeth Reptilia - Squamata - MosasauridaeIt 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