06247 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Chelonioids is an iron sulfide with

is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron(II) disulfide)

Its more exact taxonomic identification is very difficult with this type of bones

In the same matrix we can observe another emerging shark tooth tip

lacustrine (1)

Sister taxa: Acanthoparyphinae

06247 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Chelonioids is an iron sulfide withThe 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