06251 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Pterosaur claws Lamarck 1801 (sand dollar)

Lamarck 1801 (sand dollar)

They were obligate encrusters and attached themselves to inorganic or biologic hard substrates (frequently hardgrounds or brachiopods)

and it is worse preserved than the teeth of other more common species

This genus is characterized by having long fangs in its upper and lower jaws

Chlorite is also developed in the matrix

06251 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Pterosaur claws Lamarck 1801 (sand dollar)The 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