04195 - Rare Unidentified 0.86 Inch Partial Body Fish With Scales From Kem Kem Basin Squalicorax It is nicely preserved

It is nicely preserved

featuring amazing and brilliant hues

This gorgeous tooth belongs to the huge shark of the Otudus genus

This has been controversial

In these delta and fluvial ecosystems which constituted the paleogeography of the north of Africa 100 million years ago

04195 - Rare Unidentified 0.86 Inch Partial Body Fish With Scales From Kem Kem Basin Squalicorax It is nicely preservedWonderful 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