4 Unidentified Dinosaur/Reptile Vertebrae & Limb Bone - Kem Kem Beds

Unidentified Dinosaur/Reptile Vertebrae & Limb Bone - Kem Kem Beds #82609

This is a lot of four vertebrae and one nicely preserved fossil limb bone from the Late Cretaceous Kem Kem Beds of Morocco. These would represent either small dinosaurs or other reptiles such as crocodilians. The vertebrae range from 1.1 to 1.4" in length and the well preserved limb bone is 2"

This is a nice lot for some that enjoys doing research and identification. If identified and sold individually these bones would fetch many times the price of the lot. They've just been sitting on the shelf for a while and we haven't had the time to research them individually so we are just selling them as a lot.

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.