Cretaceous Crocodile Jaw Section With Tooth - Kem Kem Beds

This is a 3.1" long, jaw section of a fossil crocodile from the Late Cretaceous, Kem Kem Beds of Southern Morocco. There are sockets for 5 teeth present in a jaw, and a well preserved tooth found nearby was composited into the jaw section.

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.