07326 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Sclerorhynchus Aragonite is a carbonate mineral

Aragonite is a carbonate mineral

This is from the levels with Ampyx and Agerina

Its fossils have been found in the Ifezouane and Aoufous Formations that crops out in the south-east of Morocco

Environments: marginal marine

Comments: Plessitic octahedrite

07326 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Sclerorhynchus Aragonite is a carbonate mineralIt 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