05015 - Beautiful Well Preserved 0.48 Inch Weltonia ancistrodon Shark Tooth Turtle referring to the arid climate

referring to the arid climate in present day Morocco where this marine reptile was recovered

SQUAMATA Oppel

Gilmore 1912

Diagnosis : 13 teeth on dentary

It only has a small fracture which has been glued next to the root

05015 - Beautiful Well Preserved 0.48 Inch Weltonia ancistrodon Shark Tooth Turtle referring to the arid climateBeautiful example of this species of shark of the Hexanchidae family. It does not have any type of restoration or repair. It comes from the Paleocene materials of the Ouled Abdoun Basin. The Ouled Abdoun Basin (or Khouribga Basin), located in the central sector of Morocco, is an enormous sedimentarian basin represented mostly by a vast filling of phosphate sediments. Apart from having a relevant raw material to be extracted, it has a series of very