07327 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Mosasaur Sister taxa: Cimolichthys

Sister taxa: Cimolichthys

Beautiful rare specimen

08 Inch = 2 mm

We also find in the Early Paleocene the genus Brachyopsemys tingitana

Its morphology resembles very much that of the dentition rests published recently by Ibrahim et al

07327 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Mosasaur Sister taxa: CimolichthysIt 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