20239 - Top Huge 3.69 Inch Otodus obliquus Shark Vertebra Bone Paleocene Symphysurus com/article/10

com/article/10

Minerals were located and identified using BSE mode on Hitachi S3000N SEM coupled with an X-ray detector Bruker XFlash 3001 for microanalysis (EDS) and mapping

It is one of the many extinct lungfish species that dominated the fluvial ecosystems in the Mesozoic Era

Cyphaspis eberhardiei

20239 - Top Huge 3.69 Inch Otodus obliquus Shark Vertebra Bone Paleocene Symphysurus com/article/10Impressive and huge vertebra of this shark species. It is not common to find such large vertebrae. This vertebra has been stabilized on its surface by Paraloid B 72 to ensure its stability and consistency. This process does not affect neither the color nor any of the characteristics. It simply makes the specimen better preserved in the long term. It has small glued fractures, but no fabrication. Otudus is a genus belonging to the shark group known as