Our Otodus Obliquus Fossil Shark Teeth have a size of 40mm root to tip on average, some larger. You will receive a complete, unbroken tooth, having NO fillers or repairs and both cusps present. Includes Free Worldwide Shipping.
Each tooth may vary slightly in size, shape and colour. ALL OUR FOSSILS SUPPLIED WITH CERTIFICATES OF AUTHENTICATION OF 100% Genuineness; all items are real Fossil Specimens!
Welcome to our high-quality Otodus obliquus shark teeth selection, procured from Morocco's Ouled Abdoun Basin formation in North Africa. This Otodus obliquus shark tooth has been cleaned and conserved. Each tooth has a sharp edge on both the mesial and distal sides, leading up to the crown tip and a good bourlette and root, including both cusps.
Genus: Otodus Obliquus.
Age: Cenozoic era, late Palaeocene, approximately 50 to 70 million years.
Origin: Phosphate deposits of Khouribga, Ouled Abdoun Basin, Northern Sahara, Morocco.
Approximate measurements.
Length: 4.0 cm
Width: 4.6 cm
Depth: 1.2 cm
Approximate weight: 0,015 g
This genuine fossil shark 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.
All our shark teeth are 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 with most elasmobranchs, the skeletons of Otodus obliquus sharks were cartilaginous; cartilage is easily broken down by bacteria, resulting in most discoveries missing the skeletal structures that can be seen in many other vertebrate fossil depositions.
The Otodus obliquus was an enormous Macro-predatory shark with the most significant recorded tooth measuring 10.4 cm in length. With each discovery, we can determine more about these mighty sharks that roamed the prehistoric seas of the Cenozoic era.
Otodus was a fearsome predatory shark growing to a maximum length of 39 feet. Their prey is smaller marine mammals, including smaller sharks. Scientists and palaeontologists theorise the Otodus obliquus ancestry connects to the great Megalodon from the Miocene era, evolving for around 30,000,000 years a lineage down to the modern Great white sharks. The heritage of Carcharocles as we understand it today.
All our specimen fossil teeth up to 70 to 50 million years old were discovered in the phosphate beds of khouribga, near Casablanca, Morocco, in North Africa.
Age: Cenozoic era, late Palaeocene, approximately 50 to 70 million years.
Origin: Phosphate deposits of Khouribga, Ouled Abdoun Basin, Northern Sahara, Morocco.
Adequately described with a leaflet of origin and size diagrams
of the teeth found in this particular fossil layer deposit.
It is supplied with a signed certificate of authenticity of the fossils, location, and age description. It makes a perfect gift idea!