88596 - Top Quality 1.75 Inch Rooted Schizorhiza Rostral Barb in Natural Matrix

Beautiful rostral tooth of this species (Schizorhiza) of the Upper Cretaceous. Usually appears in the association of Maastrictian vertebrates of the Ouled Abdoun Basin. The color of its enamel varies between tones of cream and brown. The continuity and preservation of this specimen make it belong to the finest quality class. Not restored or glued.

The Ouled Abdoun Basin (or Khouribga Basin), located in the central sector of Morocco, is an enormous sedimentarian basin represented mostly by a vast filling of phosphate sediments. Apart from having a relevant raw material to be extracted, it has a series of very important paleontological sites in which amazing assemblages from big and small marine vertebrates are present. The basin has a so great continuity in its stratigraphic record that both the Upper Cretaceous as well as the two first epochs of the Paleogene (Paleocene and Eocene) can be studied.

The main assemblage of vertebrate fossils of the Paleogene sector present there is composed by sharks, fish, turtles, marine snakes, rays, crocodiles, other types of reptiles and even marine birds. In the Cretaceous part we can add Mosasaurs, Pterosaurs and Plesiosaurs.

Next you can visit a link with very interesting information about this sedimentarian basin rich in fossil vertebrates: Ouled Abdoun Basin