Moroccan Shark Tooth Id's Needed

[Olenoides]

I got box of a few dozen misc. fossil shark teeth including in my last shipment of trilobites from Morocco. A few I was able to ID pretty easily but here's the ones I was unsure about. These are coming from a Eocene aged site in the Western Sahara Desert. For scale the longer teeth on the top are about 1 1/2 inches long.

[MikeR]

Most Moroccan teeth that I have seen are lighter in color, with very little wear and come from either the Cretaceous or Eocene. Those that you picture look to be Miocene or Pliocene beach collected teeth from the Eastern US.

[Olenoides]

I know for sure they did come from Morocco. It's a fairly recently discovered site in a different part of the country. I was sent about 50 teeth including some large Makos and Hemis from the site as a sample of the material. It's very possible they could be Miocene/Pliocene and not Eocene though.

Here's one of the larger Makos from the site.

[taj]

Bakrit teeth have a decidedly darker shade

did not read the full thread on my mobile before posting : Bakrit is cretaceous .

Try contact jnoun on this forum , he should be able to give you some hints

Edited April 17, 2014 by taj

[Olenoides]

I asked for a more detailed locality and was told they came from Boujdour. I did an Internet search for the area and didn't turn up much other than an abstract for a paper describing a new Eocene aged vertabrate fauna (fish and shark teeth) from the area. Also some references to very rare Megalodon teeth coming from this area.

Bakrit teeth have a decidedly darker shade

did not read the full thread on my mobile before posting : Bakrit is cretaceous .

Try contact jnoun on this forum , he should be able to give you some hints

Edited April 18, 2014 by Olenoides

[sseth]

Matt

The upper two teeth appear to be sand tiger, the middle two Lemon shark and the bottom appears to be a "Contortis" which is a tiger shark. These do look almost identical to east coast teeth, although I do have a large collection of megs ricks, and makos from Morocco. They do differ in color from these however, and look similar in color to your mako, but hopefully this gives you a few leads.

Seth