Fossilized Shark Tooth Pendant

Species: Otodus obliquus

Age: Eocene (~54 Million Years)

Origin: Khouribga, Morocco

Size: .75" to 1.25" 

Otodus is an extinct genus of mackerel shark that lived from the Paleocene to the Pliocene epoch. It is int the same family of sharks as the Great White and the largest shark ever known, the Megalodon.

The species are known primarily from their teeth and fossilized vertebral centra, since the skeleton of the animal was composed primarily of cartilage, which results in relatively few fossilized remains being preserved.[1]

Sources:

[1] Shimada, K. (2022). "Phylogenetic affinity of the extinct shark family Otodontidae within Lamniformes remains uncertain - Comments on "List of skeletal material from megatooth sharks (Lamniformes, Otodontidae)" by Greenfield" (PDF). Paleoichthys. 6: 1–5.