04232 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Dinosaur Egg Shells It is not easy to
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
It is not easy to find this type of pieces in these sites due to the destructive metholodology of many local miners
and its specific assignation to a taxon is complex
The different Geological Formations that make up the orography of the Cretaceous in the South East of Morocco have been mostly treated in an undifferentiated and not too accurate way by collectors
which makes it very special
Precious tooth of Cretolamna maroccana (Mackerel Shark) from the phosphate deposits of the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Morocco)
04232 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Dinosaur Egg Shells It is not easy toThe 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