07207 - Top Huge 3.26 Inch Otodus obliquus Shark Tooth in Matrix Paleocene Theropods_Claws_and_Bones leaving interdental pitting of the

leaving interdental pitting of the bone between adjacent tooth crowns

721 families of gastropods are known

Finding paleontological examples of pathologies preserved in the fossil record is extremely rare

-Prognathodon currii (Christiansen & Bonde

We can observe in the tooth the abnormal growing

07207 - Top Huge 3.26 Inch Otodus obliquus Shark Tooth in Matrix Paleocene Theropods_Claws_and_Bones leaving interdental pitting of theIt is a tooth from an enormous shark species Otudus obliquus. It is preserved in its natural matrix. In the same matrix another shark tooth of the Odontaspidae family can be seen associated. Its preservation is very good, with a premium quality enamel. 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