06901 - Finest Association Cretolamna (mackerel shark) Tooth + Squalicorax (Crow Shark) Tooth in Matrix Notidanodon filling cracks

filling cracks

due to Haüy

plagioclase and ilmenite in glassy material

new species

It is a quite rare species within the huge shark assemblage present in the phosphates of the lower Paleogene of this region of Morocco

06901 - Finest Association Cretolamna (mackerel shark) Tooth + Squalicorax (Crow Shark) Tooth in Matrix Notidanodon filling cracksPrecious association of 2 teeth in matrix of Cretolamna maroccana (Mackerel Shark) and Squalicorax pristodontus from the cretaceous phosphate deposits of the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Morocco). 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