20118 - Top Quality 2.81 Inch Elosuchus sp Crocodile Premaxillary Tooth KemKem Beds Otodus vertebrae Parachuangia
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Description
Parachuangia
lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Unbroken specimen
while 476 are currently extant with or without a fossil record
The rostrum most likely would have had electrosensors to detect food in the water below them like most modern sharks and some rays
20118 - Top Quality 2.81 Inch Elosuchus sp Crocodile Premaxillary Tooth KemKem Beds Otodus vertebrae ParachuangiaExcellent tooth of one of the giant crocodiles that reigned the fluvial systems of the North African Cretaceous, sharing habitat with dinosaurs such as the Spinosaurus. The morphology of this tooth, suggests that it belonged to the premaxillary of Elosuchus genus. It has some glued and filled fractures. Elosuchus sp, de Lapparent de Broin 2002 (crocodilian) Reptilia Loricata Pholidosauridae Revision and phylogenetic affinities of Elosuchus