04217 - Strongly Serrated 1.31 Inch Palaeocarcharodon orientalis (Pygmy white Shark) Tooth Elosuchus Nice juvenile Onchopristis tooth

Nice juvenile Onchopristis tooth

They have been cleaned and prepared to match it from its natural carbonaceous matrix

It could be considered an adaptation for the best grip when perching on steep surfaces

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

from the Aoufous Formation (Kem Kem Basin

04217 - Strongly Serrated 1.31 Inch Palaeocarcharodon orientalis (Pygmy white Shark) Tooth Elosuchus Nice juvenile Onchopristis toothThis is one of the sharks with sharpest and most serrated edges of all the assemblage in the Paleogene phosphate quarries of the Oulad Abdoun Basin (Morocco). It is a piece with a size that exceeds that of the average for its species. It is preserved in full and almost perfect. It only has a small glued fracture close to the root and to one of the lateral denticles, as indicated in one of the pictures. It does not have any restorations. The lateral