05619 - Great Collection of 4 Onchopristis numidus Cretaceous Sawfish Rostral Teeth Cretaceous Onnia Finding paleontological examples of pathologies

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

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There are many thousands of species of sea snails and slugs

and provides an early example of the origin of massive filter-feeders within a macro-predatory clade at a time of large-scale diversification in the plankton

Apart from the main tooth it can be observed as it preserves an emerging germ replacement tooth

05619 - Great Collection of 4 Onchopristis numidus Cretaceous Sawfish Rostral Teeth Cretaceous Onnia Finding paleontological examples of pathologiesGreat collection of 4 specimens. Some of them have glued and tiny filled fractures. Onchopristis is a genus of extinct giant sawfish that lived in the Lower Cretaceous to Upper Cretaceous in North Africa and New Zealand. It had an elongated snout lined laterally with barbed teeth. It is a large sawfish, known from remains throughout North America, North Africa and New Zealand. It was very large, up to 8 m (26. 2 ft) long when fully grown. As with