77041 - Top Beautiful 0.81'' Pterosaur (Coloborhynchus) Tooth Cretaceous KemKem Study Precious tooth of Squalicorax pristodontus
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
Precious tooth of Squalicorax pristodontus (Crow Shark) from the phosphate deposits of the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Morocco)
Some of them have tiny glued fractures
Nevertheless
Lapparent 1957
Within the amazing assemblage of North African Cretaceous theropods
77041 - Top Beautiful 0.81'' Pterosaur (Coloborhynchus) Tooth Cretaceous KemKem Study Precious tooth of Squalicorax pristodontusNot restored or glued. The teeth with strong and vivid fossilization colors such as red, orange and black come from small paleochannels composed by thin layers, in the intermediate and upper stratigraphic levels (Red Sandstone Beds), from the Aoufous Formation (Kem Kem Basin, South of Morocco). The lithology of this body of sediment is characterized by the dominance of sandstones (also known as arenites) and fluvial gravel, of siliceous nature.