T242- Rare Eocarcharia dinops Dinosaur Tooth Cretaceous Elrhaz Fm Tenere Desert Olenoides Scanning electron microscopy (backscattered electron

Scanning electron microscopy (backscattered electron mode) images showing the abundance of albite plagioclase and the presence of euhedral amphibole crystals

It was prepared using a classic resin transfer process

It became extinct about 65 million years ago in the Cretaceous

"Taxonomic Composition and Trophic Structure of the Continental Bony Fish Assemblage from the Early Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Morocco"

Parent taxon: Acastidae according to P

T242- Rare Eocarcharia dinops Dinosaur Tooth Cretaceous Elrhaz Fm Tenere Desert Olenoides Scanning electron microscopy (backscattered electronScientific name: Eocarcharia dinops, Sereno and Brusatte, 2008 Carcharodontosauridae family Location: Gadoufaoua, Tner Desert, Niger. Geological Formation: Elrhaz Fm Age: Lower Cretaceous, Aptian Albian stage ( 113 million years) Size (long): 3. 4cm = 1. 33 inch REF.: T242 DESCRIPTION: Eocarcharia (meaning "dawn shark") is a genus of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Elrhaz Formation that lived in the Sahara 112 million