88456 - Top Beautiful OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Meteorites Cavin et al

Cavin et al

- Galianemys emringeri Gaffney et al

It could belong to another reptile variety

The genus Palaeocarcharodon

The basin has a so great continuity in its stratigraphic record that both the Upper Cretaceous as well as the two first epochs of the Paleogene (Paleocene and Eocene) can be studied

88456 - Top Beautiful OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Meteorites Cavin et alIt 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