1.8" Fossil Crocodile Jaw Section With Tooth - Kem Kem Beds, Morocco

Fossil Crocodile Jaw Section With Tooth - Kem Kem Beds, Morocco #110299

This is a 1.8" section of fossil crocodylimorph jaw from the Kem Kem Beds, Morocco. It is a section of the lower jaw with an unerupted tooth still in the socket. There is also a section of a second socket. The bone is in very good condition.

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

One of the tunnels dug into the Kem Kem beds by local miners following the productive fossil beds.

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