88468 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Peyeria Beautiful dental plate of Lepidotes

Beautiful dental plate of Lepidotes pankowskii

It inhabited the seas of the Paleocene between 60 and 55 million years ago

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318

and Araripemydidae

Monbaron 1983

88468 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Peyeria Beautiful dental plate of LepidotesIt has 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