06364 - Rare Unidentified 0.57 Inch Partial Body Fish With Scales From Kem Kem Basin Coloborhynchus Turkey (3)

Turkey (3)

71 Inch   //   43

Mississippi

It has been published recently

2003: 397-408

06364 - Rare Unidentified 0.57 Inch Partial Body Fish With Scales From Kem Kem Basin Coloborhynchus Turkey (3)Wonderful rest of one of the fish species that reigned the Cretaceous ecosystems in North Africa. It is a vey rare piece which preserves multiple details that could be diagnostic for its proper classification. However, after having performed comparisons with the last available rests of published fish from this area, it has not been possible to determine exactly its taxonomic position within the teleost fish. Its scales are much more elongated than