20327 - Top Beautiful 1.81 Inch Irregular Native Copper - Bou Nahas (South Morocco) Rare Stephanodus sp : Fossilworks (Paleobiology

Stephanodus sp : Fossilworks (Paleobiology Database)

Tylosaurus sp

77 in) It has a series of fractures which have been restored via the filling method

abundant new material has been obtained from the Maastrichtian to the Ypresian phosphatic basins of Morocco

It has some small glued fractures

20327 - Top Beautiful 1.81 Inch Irregular Native Copper - Bou Nahas (South Morocco) Rare Stephanodus sp : Fossilworks (PaleobiologyNative copper is an uncombined form of copper that occurs as a natural mineral. Copper is one of the few metallic elements to occur in native form, although it most commonly occurs in oxidized states and mixed with other elements. Native copper was an important ore of copper in historic times and was used by pre historic peoples. Native copper occurs rarely as isometric cubic and octahedral crystals, but more typically as irregular masses and fracture