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Fossile autentico di Basilosaurus – Frammento di mascella con un molare
Provenienza: Formazione Samlat, Sud-ovest del Marocco
Età: Eocene (circa 40 milioni di anni fa)
Dimensioni: 14 × 9 × 3 cm

Eccezionale frammento fossile appartenente a un Basilosaurus, antico cetaceo dell’Eocene, con una porzione di mascella che conserva un molare originale ben visibili.

I Basilosauridi potevano raggiungere dimensioni gigantesche, fino a 18 metri (60 piedi) di lunghezza, e si nutrivano di pesci, squali e uccelli marini. La loro dentatura era altamente specializzata: i denti anteriori, appuntiti, servivano a catturare e trattenere le prede, mentre i molari, caratterizzati da una morfologia unica e radici doppie, erano ottimizzati per masticare e triturare.

Il reperto proviene dalla Formazione Samlat nel sud-ovest del Marocco, area nota per i ricchi depositi di fossili marini dell’Eocene. Ha subito un restauro conservativo, che ha garantito stabilità e leggibilità senza alterarne l’autenticità.

Un fossile di grande impatto visivo e scientifico, raro per completezza e stato di conservazione, perfetto per arricchire una collezione paleontologica o un cabinet di curiosità.

Paleogene, Eocene (56 - 33.9 million years) - Africa

Fossil teeth - Basilosaurus - 14 cm - 9 cm

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Cretaceous (145 - 66 million years)

Cretaceous, Upper (100.5 - 66 million years)

Neogene, Miocene (23.03 - 5.33 million years)

Paleogene, Eocene (56 - 33.9 million years)

Quaternary, Pleistocene (2.58 - 0.0117 million years)

Cretaceous, Lower (145 - 100.5 million years)

Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 million years)

Neogene (23.03 - 2.58 million years)

Triassic (251.9 - 201.3 million years)

Jurassic (201.3 - 145 million years)

Ordovician (485.4 - 443.8 million years)

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Jurassic, Lower (201.3 - 174.1 million years)

Devonian, Middle (393.3 - 382.7 million years)

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Triassic, Lower (251.9 - 247.2 million years)

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Quaternary, Holocene (0.0117 - 0 million years)

Jurassic, Middle (174.1 - 163.5 million years)

Triassic, Middle (247.2 - 237 million years)

Ordovician, Middle (470 - 458.4 million years)

Cambrian, Series 2 (521 - 509 million years)

Cenozoic (66 - 0 million years)

Neogene, Pliocene (5.33 - 2.58 million years)

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53 (EU) / 13 (IT) / 6 ¼ (US)

57 (EU) / 17 (IT) / 8 (US)

56 (EU) / 16 (IT) / 7 ½ (US)

58 (EU) / 18 (IT) / 8 ¼ (US)

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