07335 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Mosasaurus baugei Distribution:
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
Distribution:
Environments: (111 collections)
Partial skull of this extremely rare cretaceous fish species
Classification: Iron
The Ancyloceratina were a diverse suborder of ammonite most closely related to the ammonites of order Lytoceratina
07335 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Mosasaurus baugei Distribution: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