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4.8" Fossil Theropod Humerus - Morocco
This is a 4.8" fossil theropod humerus from the Kem Kem Beds, Morocco. This specimen is from a small or juvenile theropod. It has repaired cracks and some surrounding substrate still attached. The head (ball) of the humerus is missing.
The Kem Kem Beds are 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
Unidentified Theropod
AGE
LOCATION
Kem Kem Basin, Morocco
FORMATION
Kem Kem Beds
SIZE
4.8"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#110179
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