06360 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Chalcedonized Gastropods This specimen has a fresh

This specimen has a fresh cut to see its internal texture

It reigned the seas during the Paleocene and the Eocene (60-45 million years ago)

but to a reptile such as a crocodile or a turtle

Selenopeltoides

Age range: 112

06360 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Chalcedonized Gastropods This specimen has a freshThe 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