20230 - Top Huge 1.46 Inch Squalicorax pristodontus (Crow Shark) Tooth Cyphaspis ("Devil Horned") Specimen collected in Algeria
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Description
Specimen collected in Algeria
It is the rostral bone of the giant sawfish Onchopristis numidus
many aspects of the original paleoenvironment can be learned
• Quaternary of United States (Florida
middle dentition composed of laterally compressed blade-like teeth with anterior and posterior serrated carinae
20230 - Top Huge 1.46 Inch Squalicorax pristodontus (Crow Shark) Tooth Cyphaspis ("Devil Horned") Specimen collected in AlgeriaPrecious huge tooth of Squalicorax pristodontus (Crow Shark) from the phosphate deposits of the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Morocco). 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 assemblages