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1.01" Fossil Fish Fang (Aidachar) - Kem Kem Beds, Morocco
This is a nicely preserved, needle-like Aidachar tooth, an extinct teleost ray-finned fish. These teeth sometimes get confused with Pterosaur teeth, but they have a distinctive curve near the tip, are more hollow and don't have the typical striations found on pterosaur teeth.
There is a repaired crack through the fang. Comes in an acrylic display case.
This article offers an excellent, in-depth look at fish material pulled from the Kem Kem beds in Morocco:
Taxonomic Composition and Trophic Structure of the Continental Bony Fish Assemblage from the Early Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Morocco
There is a repaired crack through the fang. Comes in an acrylic display case.
This article offers an excellent, in-depth look at fish material pulled from the Kem Kem beds in Morocco:
Taxonomic Composition and Trophic Structure of the Continental Bony Fish Assemblage from the Early Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Morocco
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
Aidachar pankowskii
LOCATION
Kem Kem Basin, Taouz, Morocco
FORMATION
Kem Kem Beds
SIZE
1.01" long
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#219728
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