5.3" Enchodus Jaw Section With 7 Teeth - Fanged Fish

Enchodus Jaw Section With Teeth - Fanged Fish #31473

This specimen was just acquired from one of our suppliers. We won't have it back in our warehouse to ship until Sept. 18th It is on sale until this date, so if you purchase it quickly you get a discount :)

This is a nicely prepared jaw section collected from the phosphate mines in the Oulad Abdoun Basin of Morocco. While individual teeth of Enchodus are extremely common in these deposits, nice jaw sections like this are more unusual.

Enchodus flourished during the Upper Cretaceous and was small to medium in size. One of the genus' most notable attributes are the large "fangs" at the front of the upper and lower jaws and on the palatine bones, leading to its misleading nickname "saber-toothed herring" among fossil hunters and paleoichthyologists. These fangs, along with a long sleek body and large eyes, suggest Enchodus was a predatory species.

Artist's reconstruction of Enchodus. By Dmitry Bogdanov, Creative Commons License