20-Cretolamna biauriculata maroccana Shark teeth

Precious tooth of Cretolamna maroccana (Mackerel Shark) from the phosphate deposits of the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Morocco).  The color of the enamel is really nice, with orange tones. Its root is completely natural. It does not have any type of restoration or repair. Preserved in its natural

The Ouled Abdoun Basin (or Khouribga Basin), located in the central sector of Morocco, is an enormous sedimentarian basin represented mostly by a vast filling of phosphate sediments. Apart from having a relevant raw material to be extracted, it has a series of very important paleontological sites in which amazing assemblages from big and small marine vertebrates are present. The basin has a so great continuity in its stratigraphic record that both the Upper Cretaceous as well as the two first epochs of the Paleogene (Paleocene and Eocene) can be studied.

Size:  1,5cm-2cm-2,7cm

Age: 65-70 million years

Locality:  Sidi Chennane Khouribga,Ouedzem  Moroccos