03225 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Onchopristis Teeth in the bottoms of lakes

in the bottoms of lakes

Mawsonia lavocati from Morocco"

Permineralization is a process of fossilization in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms

a species quite abundant in the phosphate quarries of the Ouled Abdoun Basin

It is a very rare piece

03225 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Onchopristis Teeth in the bottoms of lakesThe abundant fish fauna which can be found in the Cretaceous layers of the Kem Kem Basin is large and varied. Recently Cavin et al., (2015) made an important revision of the Cretaceous association of continental fish in the south of Morocco. Link: "Taxonomic Composition and Trophic Structure of the Continental Bony Fish Assemblage from the Early Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Morocco" The scales of many of this teleost fish have a wonderful