05316 - Rare Unidentified 1.70 Inch Partial Body Fish With Scales From Kem Kem Basin Atractopyge woerthi with discrete apical carinae

with discrete apical carinae

Precious association of 3 Squalicorax pristodontus (Crow Shark) from the phosphate deposits of the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Morocco)

some of the free standing sectors during the preparation process have been fractured and glued again

Odontopleura

The head is broad and short

05316 - Rare Unidentified 1.70 Inch Partial Body Fish With Scales From Kem Kem Basin Atractopyge woerthi with discrete apical carinaeWonderful 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