Otodus Shark Tooth In Matrix 77mm

Otodus obliquus shark tooth 77mm, a particularly good single shark tooth encapsulated in the original limestone bedding plane. The tooth in matrix (fossil bedrock), unearthed at the phosphate mines near Khouribga, the Ouled Abdoun Basin formation, Morocco. This genuine fossil sharks tooth from the late Cretaceous to the early Eocene periods of North Africa, exhibits superb preservation considering it has lain in the fossil bed, buried for up to 70,000,000 years.

A very good example of the extinct mackerel sharks tooth. A very good dark caramel colour to the smooth enamel displaying on the lingual face, the labial face still attached to the matrix. Both cusplet pointers still attached to the root. A very good tooth and the original matrix which sets an appealing backdrop full of fauna of the Eocene fossil bed.

All our shark teeth have been selected, providing you with the best available Otodus obliquus teeth specimens from Morocco. These sharks are known for their fossil discoveries of only the shark teeth and some vertebral centra. As like most elasmobranchs, the skeletons of Otodus obliquus sharks were cartilaginous, cartilage easily broken down by bacteria resulting in most discoveries missing the skeletal structures which can be seen in many other vertebrate fossil depositions.

The Otodus obliquus was a very large Macro-predatory shark with the largest recorded tooth measuring 104 millimetres in length. With each discovery we are able to determine more about these once powerful animals which ranged the globe in prehistoric sea's of the Cenozoic era. Otodus is estimated to have been a fearsome predatory shark which could have grown to a maximum length of 39 feet.

Otodus's prey would have been other marine mammals and fish, also other smaller sharks. Scientist and palaeontologists Theorise that this shark is the ancestor of the great Megalodon of the Miocene period, evolving around 30 to 40 million years after otodus and eventually our modern day Great White sharks. This is the lineage of Carcharocles.