Globidens Tooth in Matrix

Globidens Tooth in MatrixA well preserved Globidens tooth partially rooted, embedded in its original matrix. Globidens is a shell crushing mosasaur from Moroccos Late Cretaceous phosphate seas (Oulad Abdoun Khouribga Basin). Built with stout jaws and globe shaped teeth, it specialized in hard preyclams, ammonites, nautiloids, turtles, and crustaceanshunting over warm, shallow shelves rich in invertebrates. Fossils commonly found include isolated rounded teeth, jaw fragments,

In sharks like the extinct Hemipristis serra and the living Hemipristis elongata

Their adaptation to various habitats

sail-backed predator that prowled Cretaceous rivers long before the first T

Carcharodon planus

One root lobe has been reattached and stabilized

The nickel-iron surrounding them often displays the delicate geometric patterning known as Widmanstätten pattern

As one of the best-represented sauropods in the fossil record

This rare large fossilized walrus tusk comes from a South Carolina river

and its waters and beaches are part of the same ancient marine system that makes this stretch of southwest Florida one of the best places in the world to find Megalodon teeth

More often than not

Fragments like this one carry that scientific legacy with them

They were most abundant during the last Ice Age