04230 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Crinoids 51 Inch = 13 mm

51 Inch = 13 mm

indicating in orange the position of the  phalanx bones

This rostral bone does not have restorations or reparations

Usually the teeth are worn out by feeding

It is almost full

04230 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Crinoids 51 Inch = 13 mmThe abundant fish fauna which can be found in the Cretaceous layers of the Kem Kem Basin is large and varied. Recently Cavin et al., (2015) made an important revision of the Cretaceous association of continental fish in the south of Morocco. Link: "Taxonomic Composition and Trophic Structure of the Continental Bony Fish Assemblage from the Early Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Morocco" The scales of many of this teleost fish have a wonderful