20418 - Great Collection of 2 Pterosaur (Coloborhynchus) Teeth Cretaceous KemKem Beds Quartz American Museum Novitates 3379:1-20

American Museum Novitates 3379:1-20

Schreibersite abundant occurring as cm-sized skeletal crystals at the centers of kamacite crystals

It has small fractures that have been glued but no restored or fabricated at the lower part of the tooth

Minerals were located and identified using BSE mode on Hitachi S3000N SEM coupled with an X-ray detector Bruker XFlash 3001 for microanalysis (EDS) and mapping

The details of the anatomy of the superficial osseous structure of the root are extremely well preserved

20418 - Great Collection of 2 Pterosaur (Coloborhynchus) Teeth Cretaceous KemKem Beds Quartz American Museum Novitates 3379:1-20Precious collection of two nice teeth of this species of pterosaur. The pterosaurs dentition rests in the Upper Cretaceous in North Africa are relatively common among the fauna which got preserved from those ecosystems around 100 million years ago. However, only two different pterosaur taxons have been described. Mader & Kellner (1999) (Full reference: B. J. Mader and A. W. A. Kellner. 1999. A new anhanguerid pterosaur from the Cretaceous of Morocco.