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Unknown Serrated Moroccan Shark Tooth


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I was going through a number of common Otodus teeth for sale at a local rock show and found one with large serrations on the sides.  Doing a little research showed two types of serrated shark teeth from Morocco.  Otodus sokolovi and Palaeocarcharodon orientalis.  The tooth is 3 1/2 cm long on the diagonal.  Sorry for the poor photo.  My camera isn't the best but you can make out the serrations.  Can anyone identify this?

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Cropped, rotated, brightened, and sharpened.

 

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The picture is blurry and it is hard to make out the details, but the serrations are consistent with Paleocarcharodon orientalis

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Thanks everyone.  I kind of was leaning that way as well.  The quality of the tooth isn't very good and usually I wouldn't have purchased it but I thought something looked different.  I read that Paleocarcharodon orientalis are usually quite small.  Is 3 1/2 cm considered small?  There is only a partial cusplet on one side and it looks like nothing left on the other.  

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