05191 - Museum Grade Huge Elasmosaurus (Zarafasaura oceanis) Vertebrae Bone in Natural Matrix
05191 - Museum Grade Huge Elasmosaurus (Zarafasaura oceanis) Vertebrae Bone in Natural Matrix 05191 - Museum Grade Huge Elasmosaurus (Zarafasaura oceanis) Vertebrae Bone in Natural Matrix 05191 - Museum Grade Huge Elasmosaurus (Zarafasaura oceanis) Vertebrae Bone in Natural Matrix 05191 - Museum Grade Huge Elasmosaurus (Zarafasaura oceanis) Vertebrae Bone in Natural Matrix

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05191 - Museum Grade Huge Elasmosaurus (Zarafasaura oceanis) Vertebrae Bone in Natural Matrix

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Species
Zarafasaura oceanis, Vincent et al. 2011 (elasmosaur)
Age
Upper Cretaceous, Maastrichtian stage, (~66 Million Years)
Location
Oued Zem, Morocco
Formation
Ouled Abdoun Basin (Phosphate beds)
Size
310 mm   •    in
Weight
3970 g   •    oz
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Description

Impressive huge vertebra bone of this species of Elasmosaurus in its phosphatic matrix. This specimen has been stabilized on its surface by Paraloid B-72 to ensure its stability and consistency. This process does not affect neither the color nor any of the characteristics. It simply makes the specimen better preserved in the long term.

This huge and famous marine reptile is characterized by its long and stylized neck. Its morphology enabled it being a very specialized marine predator. Until 2011, this taxon was classified as Plesiosaurus mauritanicus. However, a recent publication by Vincent et al, 2011, does a revision on this species and decides to rename it to Zarafasaura oceanis.

Next you can find a link to the scientific paper: Zarafasaura Oceanis

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

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