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1.5" Cretaceous Fossil Crocodile Tooth - Morocco
This is a 1.5" fossil crocodile tooth from the Kem Kem Beds of Morocco. There are at least six genera known from the Kem-Kem and it is difficult to assign a taxonomic identification because some of the genera are not well described. There is a repair and some gap filling to the base of the tooth.
The Kem Kem Group is famous for yielding a diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate assemblage, including fish, reptiles, and dinosaurs such as Spinosaurus. These fossils are found in a thin bed that outcrops around the edge of a large plateau near Taouz, Morocco. Local miners collect these fossils by digging narrow tunnels by hand into this plateau, following the layer.
A paper on this assemblage can be found at: Vertebrate assemblages from the early Late Cretaceous of southeastern Morocco: An overview
A paper on this assemblage can be found at: Vertebrate assemblages from the early Late Cretaceous of southeastern Morocco: An overview
SPECIES
Unknown Crocodile
LOCATION
Taouz, Kem Kem Basin, Morocco
FORMATION
Kem Kem Beds
SIZE
1.5" long
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#122453
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