07332 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Phylloceras † Heterodiadema libycum

† Heterodiadema libycum

A New Pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchidae) fromthe Upper Cretaceous of Morocco

†Morocconites sp

Sister taxa: Erbenoceras

-Mosasaurus beaugei (Arambourg

07332 - Top Huge OTODUS OBLIQUUS (mackerel shark) Tooth Paleocene Phylloceras † Heterodiadema libycumIt 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