2 Inch Otodus Fossil Shark Tooth

Otodus obliquus tooth:  A fossil tooth from an extinct species of mackeral shark which lived about 60 million years ago in the Paleocene Epoch.  The tooth is about 2 inches in the longest diagonal dimension (5.2 cm).  This specimen is in its natural rock matrix as found.

The specimen is about 5 inches in width in total and weighs about 1.25 pounds.  Click the large image to get a view of the entire specimen.