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1.6" Fossil Dinosaur Vertebra - Morocco
This is a 1.6" long vertebra of a small dinosaur. It comes from the Late Cretaceous, Kem Kem Beds of Morocco, home to the meat eating giants, Spinosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus. There is a repaired crack through the body of the vertebra that required gap fill restoration. The processes broke away and weren't recovered.
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
Unidentified Dinosaur
LOCATION
Taouz, Kem Kem Basin, Morocco
FORMATION
Kem Kem Beds
SIZE
1.6" long, 1.2" tall
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#144823
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