88465 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene scales smooth cutting edges

smooth cutting edges

we can observe a fly (Diptera sp - Dolichopodidae)

more recent studies have proposed that the far origin of the great white is closer to the Cretolamna genus than to the Paleocarcharodon

Haluza et al

88465 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene scales smooth cutting edgesOtudus 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 process. . The teeth of this