My Moroccan Shark Tooth Scores From the 2024 Tucson Gem Mineral and Fossil Show

Moroccan fossils were abundant at the 2024 Tucson Gem Mineral and Fossil Show. Quality specimens, however, were not; Moroccan fossils are notorious for the abundance of fabricated and sneakily (and not-so-sneakily) repaired/restored specimens. In this video, we go over some of our favorite, hand-picked Moroccan fossil shark teeth we had picked up at the show.
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Paleocarcharodon did not evolve into megalodon , it was a dead end.

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That is true; Palaeocarcharodon, while being a relative to C. megalodon within the same family Otodontidae, is not an ancestor to C. megalodon. Palaeocarcharodon is, in my opinion, either a sister taxa to Otodus, or is possibly evolved from the earlier-splitting otodontid shark Kenolamna (which would require a very long-spanning ghost lineage).