22181 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Rhombodus Sister taxa: Arduennella

Sister taxa: Arduennella

probably by the alteration of olivine grains

defines value 3 as "calcite"

3 Wollastonite (mol%): 4

but its neural spine and transverse processes are restored

22181 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Rhombodus Sister taxa: ArduennellaUnbroken specimen. 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 process. .