13070 - Exceedingly Rare Pterosaur Limb Bone - Nyctosaurid Alcione sp Late Cretaceous Native gold 27g(143937895486)

27g(143937895486)

Parent taxon: Diplagnostidae according to H

Isyrakopeltis

Fe/Mn=45-46

and the matrix is below to 70 μm

13070 - Exceedingly Rare Pterosaur Limb Bone - Nyctosaurid Alcione sp Late Cretaceous Native gold 27g(143937895486)SPECIES Probably Alcione sp Nyctosaurid pterosaur Limb BoneAGE Upper Cretaceous, Maastrichtian stage, (~66 Million Years)LOCATION Oued Zem, MoroccoFORMATION Ouled Abdoun Basin (Phosphate beds)SIZE 24cmExtremely rare specimen. It is the bone of a limb of a type of huge pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous. It probably belongs to the Nyctosauridae family, and its morphology seems to correspond to the genus Alcione sp. It comes from the Upper Cretaceous