04190 - Rare Unidentified 1.63 Inch Partial Body Fish With Scales From Kem Kem Basin KemKem_Beds_Fish_Assemblage and much of the information

and much of the information is still to be confirmed

Even the genus identification is very complicated if only dentition rests are available

It is common to find the teeth of many varieties of crocodiles in this Cretaceous region of North Africa

label their crocodile teeth as belonging to the huge crocodile of the Sarcosuchus sp genus --however

The bones have some fractures that have been glued and restored by the filling method

04190 - Rare Unidentified 1.63 Inch Partial Body Fish With Scales From Kem Kem Basin KemKem_Beds_Fish_Assemblage and much of the informationWonderful rest of one of the fish species that reigned the Cretaceous ecosystems in North Africa. It is a vey rare piece which preserves multiple details that could be diagnostic for its proper classification. However, after having performed comparisons with the last available rests of published fish from this area, it has not been possible to determine exactly its taxonomic position within the teleost fish. Its scales are much more elongated than