07334 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Bone_Claw It has some glued but

It has some glued but not restored fractures

This is a piece worth of study and publication

The claw has a very stylized morphology

This specimen has small glued fractures

Gürich 1901 (trilobite)

07334 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Bone_Claw It has some glued butIt 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