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2.09" Fossil Crocodile (Elosuchus) Tooth - Morocco
This is a 2.09" fossil crocodile tooth from the Cretaceous age Kem Kem Beds, Morocco. It is likely this tooth is from a crocodyliform of the genus Elosuchus. It's a very large tooth for these crocodiles. There are two repaired cracks in 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
One of the tunnels dug into the Kem Kem beds by local miners following the productive fossil beds.
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.
SPECIES
Elosuchus sp.
LOCATION
Taouz, Kem Kem Basin, Morocco
FORMATION
Kem Kem Beds
SIZE
2.09" long
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#127163
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