15014 - Collection of 6 Finest Palaeocarcharodon orientalis (Pygmy white Shark) Teeth Study This specimen has been carefully

This specimen has been carefully prepared and extracted from its natural limestone rock

but typically is weathered and coated with a green tarnish of copper(II) carbonate (also known as patina or verdigris)

Protochittidilla

Gürich 1896 (horn coral)

Helioproetus

15014 - Collection of 6 Finest Palaeocarcharodon orientalis (Pygmy white Shark) Teeth Study This specimen has been carefullyGreat collection of 6 finest specimens. The genus Palaeocarcharodon, also known as the pygmy white shark, belongs to the Cretoxyrhinidae family. It inhabited the seas of the Paleocene between 60 and 55 million years ago. The presence of this species is rare in this Moroccan sites, and therefore it is more valued. The teeth of Palaeocarcharodon are triangular, labio lingually compressed, with quite irregular serrations and serrate lateral cusplets.