06417 - Great Collection of 3 Weltonia ancistrodon Shark Teeth Paleocene Shark vertebrae Homalonotus

Homalonotus

inside his own jaw bone

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(5):1632-1636

Globidens phosphaticus

The base of this specimen has been cast in a process of "mummification" similar to that carried out in paleontological excavations to recover large specimens on matrix with the least possible damage

06417 - Great Collection of 3 Weltonia ancistrodon Shark Teeth Paleocene Shark vertebrae HomalonotusBeautiful example of this species of shark of the Hexanchidae family. They come 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 important paleontological sites in which amazing