5.3" Fossil Crocodile Skull Section - Kem Kem Beds, Morocco

Fossil Crocodile Skull Section - Kem Kem Beds, Morocco #110298

This is a 5.3" section of fossil crocodylimorph skull from the Kem Kem Beds, Morocco. It is difficult to say with certainty what kind of crocodile or where on the skull it came from. It is likely this specimen is from the top of the head. The inside of the bone has great detail of the radial muscle attachment points. It is in very good condition but has a repaired crack. There is also a dislocated bone piece that appears to have been glued to the specimen that is not part of this section of the skull.

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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