88466 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Morocco Still nowadays there have not

Still nowadays there have not been many specific studies about these agile carnivorous

K/T Boundary Latest Cretaceous Stevensklint Denmark Dinosaur Extinction Stratigraphical Level

many aspects of the original paleoenvironment can be learned

The texture and the color have beautiful orange tonalities

The exact taxonomic classification is complex given that there are very few published studies that refer to the rests of the Dromaeosauridae family in the North African Upper Cretaceous

88466 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Morocco Still nowadays there have notOtudus 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 process. . The teeth of this