04230 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Crinoids see also Martill and Unwin

see also Martill and Unwin 2011

we must be very careful because many of those claws do not belong to a dinosaur

51 Inch = 13 mm

Usually the teeth are worn out by feeding

The colors of its enamel have very brilliant red and orangish hues

04230 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Crinoids see also Martill and UnwinThe 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