07331 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Enchodus vertebrae Goulmimichthys is an extinct genus

Goulmimichthys is an extinct genus of ray-finned fishes in the order Elopiformes

indicating in orange the position of the  phalanx bones

Comments: Approved 27 Apr 2013

Impressive Chondrite meteorite L-H Type

Spinodontochile

07331 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Enchodus vertebrae Goulmimichthys is an extinct genusIt 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