88459 - Top Beautiful OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Crocodile Skulls Link: Aoufous Formation

Link: Aoufous Formation

only has glued fracture

Beautiful association of two Cretolamna teeth and one Stephanodus dentary

This specimen has a fresh cut to see its internal texture

from the Aoufous Formation (Kem Kem Basin

88459 - Top Beautiful OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Crocodile Skulls Link: Aoufous FormationIt 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