J44- Rare Eocarcharia dinops Dinosaur Tooth - Cretaceous Elrhaz Fm Tenere Desert Aulacopleura The outer rim of augite

The outer rim of augite crystals show light brown color

(~56 Million Years)

Resser 1939

One village elder said that as a child

Tabular plagioclase crystals display certain orientation

J44- Rare Eocarcharia dinops Dinosaur Tooth - Cretaceous Elrhaz Fm Tenere Desert Aulacopleura The outer rim of augiteScientific name: Eocarcharia dinops, Sereno and Brusatte, 2008 Location: Gadoufaoua, Tner Desert, Niger. Geological Formation: Elrhaz Fm Age: Lower Cretaceous, Aptian Albian stage ( 113 million years) Size (long): 3,1cm = 1. 22 Inch REF.: J44 DESCRIPTION: Eocarcharia (meaning "dawn shark") is a genus of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Elrhaz Formation that lived in the Sahara 112 million years ago, in what today is the