07327 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Mosasaur Beautiful rare specimen

Beautiful rare specimen

South Africa (15)

Its morphology resembles very much that of the dentition rests published recently by Ibrahim et al

08 Inch = 2 mm

Its scales are much more elongated than those of the Lepidotes

07327 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Mosasaur Beautiful rare specimenIt has some 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