07830 - Well Preserved 0.72 Inch Globidens phosphaticus (Mosasaur) Tooth on Matrix Cretaceous Coloborhynchus Departement de Géologie

Departement de Géologie

The Ouled Abdoun Basin (or Khouribga Basin)

Asteropyge

Samples (polished thin-sections) also were studied under scanning electron microscope (Research Technical Services – UA)

Etymology:

07830 - Well Preserved 0.72 Inch Globidens phosphaticus (Mosasaur) Tooth on Matrix Cretaceous Coloborhynchus Departement de GéologieNice unbroken specimen preserved in its natural phosphatic matrix. In the international market is very common to find Mosasaurus rests coming from the phosphate quarries of the Upper Cretaceous of the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Morocco). This quarries have been exploited since the beginning of the past century. Many sellers that sell this fossils do not make a good precise taxonomic identification work. In these sites there are numerous different species of