06733 – Top Quality 3.20 Inch Sabre-Toothed Fish (Enchodus libycus) Upper Jaw With Fang in Natural Matrix Fossil Stoneware Natural orange iron sulfide (pyrite)
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Description
Natural orange iron sulfide (pyrite) oxidation color
with different phenocrysts and mineral transformations
North Korea (1)
Synonym: Acrodobatis Leidy 1877 (taxon 124936)
which occupied a lower position in the gum)
06733 – Top Quality 3.20 Inch Sabre-Toothed Fish (Enchodus libycus) Upper Jaw With Fang in Natural Matrix Fossil Stoneware Natural orange iron sulfide (pyrite)This is an exceptional upper jaw from the extinct bony fish Enchodus (Actinopterygii ray finned fish). This genus is characterized by having long fangs in its upper and lower jaws. Undoubtedly, it is a tremendously predatory animal, perfectly adapted to the marine ecosystems of the Cretaceous. It was found inside its natural phosphate matrix. It is not a fabricated piece. The quarries in the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Morocco) have a great variety of teleost