88468 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Peyeria featuring intense and brilliant red

featuring intense and brilliant red tones

Monbaron 1983

It's really hard to find pieces like these

a few miles south-east of Ouzina

It inhabited the seas of the Paleocene between 60 and 55 million years ago

88468 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Peyeria featuring intense and brilliant redIt has 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