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INTACT PREMIUM GRADE 3 INCH LARGE GOLDEN OTODUS OBLIQUUS PALEOCENE SHARK TOOTH WITH NO RESTORATION Phosphate Deposits - Khouribga, Morocco PALEOCENE PERIOD: 60 million years ago This is a PREMIUM grade and 100% NATURAL AND ORIGINAL fossil tooth of the shark Otodus obliquus. At 3 inches, it is a larger than typically seen size now. Unlike the majority of large Otodus teeth usually offered for sale, the side cusplets have not been glued back on and this tooth's root is genuine and intact with no restoration or artificial extension of the root lobes. On large Otodus, many times the lobe that the length measurement is based on is artificially extended to fetch higher prices or reconstructed due to digging damage, out of plaster and ground up bone. For the purist fossil shark tooth collector, finding a large intact specimen tooth from this species has become difficult. Overall, this is a fantastic and very crisp tooth that is complete and well-preserved. It is intact with only light age fissures in the root but NO REPAIR and NO RESTORATION. Both cuspletss are complete and in super preservation with no repair. This fossilized shark tooth once graced the ferocious jaws of a large shark now extinct, called the Mackeral Shark, otherwise known as Otodus obliquus. This creature is thought to be at the heart of the White shark family tree and is found in hard sandstone rock matrix in the phosphate mines in Khouribga, Morocco. The Mackeral Shark was king of the Paleocene seas 60 million years ago and is the prehistoric ancestor of the modern Great White Shark. The features of these teeth are common to all Otodus species, a massive root and large separate cusplets flanking the much larger, and heavy center crown. The characteristics indicate a highly developed and efficient hunter-killer. LARGE TEETH LIKE THIS ARE NOW HARD TO FIND WITH NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION - THIS TOOTH IS 100% ORIGINAL AS FOUND! 3" in length on the diagonal edge $165 SH1-033 INCLUDES DISPLAY BOX Actual Item - One Only |
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