07328 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Basilosaurus Jaws Lochkovella

Lochkovella

• Carboniferous to Permian of Morocco (1)

Malaysia (1)

which are produced by interference of light within the oxide film on its surface

often prismatic

07328 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Basilosaurus Jaws LochkovellaIt 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