1.35" Fossil Fish Vertebrae - Kem Kem Beads

This is a large, fossil vertebrae of a Cretaceous fish from the Kem Kem beds of Morocco.

This scale was collected from the Kem Kem Beds in Southern Morocco. The Kem Kem Beds includes a diverse assemblage of both fish and dinosaurs such as Spinosaurus which would have likely preyed upon they large Gars.

A paper on this Late Cretaceous fish assemblage can be found at:

Taxonomic Composition and Trophic Structure of the Continental Bony Fish Assemblage from the Early Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Morocco