20543 - Strongly Serrated 1.41 Inch Palaeocarcharodon orientalis (Pygmy white Shark) Tooth Snakes • Devonian of Morocco

• Devonian of Morocco

The rostrum most likely would have had electrosensors to detect food in the water below them like most modern sharks and some rays

See also Antunes 1964

This species is always characterized by 5 to 7 crests

Eocryphops

20543 - Strongly Serrated 1.41 Inch Palaeocarcharodon orientalis (Pygmy white Shark) Tooth Snakes • Devonian of MoroccoThis is one of the sharks with sharpest and most serrated edges of all the assemblage in the Paleogene phosphate quarries of the Oulad Abdoun Basin (Morocco). The lateral serrations are really spectacular. It is still sharp, with an intact tip. Its root is also completely original, not like many which are sold online. It is difficult to find better specimens than this one. The serrate lateral cusplets are also well preserved. The genus