07331 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Enchodus vertebrae the United Kingdom (7)
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Description
the United Kingdom (7)
Spinodontochile
The Mosasaur
It has some glued and small filled fractures
indicating in orange the position of the phalanx bones
07331 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Enchodus vertebrae the United Kingdom (7)It 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