2.35 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 2.35 inches in the longest diagonal dimension (6 cm).  This specimen is in its natural rock matrix as found.

The specimen is about 4 inches in width in total and weighs about 1 pound.  Click the large image to get a view of the entire specimen.