06404 - Great Collection of 3 Hexanchus microdon Shark Teeth Paleocene Tylosaurus sp • Miocene of Austria
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
• Miocene of Austria
It could belong to another reptile variety
the anterior end of which is located half its length from the frontal suture
Class : Reptilia Linnaeus
Rare specimen from an early evolutionary stage of the modern whale
06404 - Great Collection of 3 Hexanchus microdon Shark Teeth Paleocene Tylosaurus sp • Miocene of AustriaBeautiful 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