00021 - Extraordinary 2.28 Inch Kem Kem Unidentified Dinosaur Complete Dorsal Vertebra Bone
00021 - Extraordinary 2.28 Inch Kem Kem Unidentified Dinosaur Complete Dorsal Vertebra Bone 00021 - Extraordinary 2.28 Inch Kem Kem Unidentified Dinosaur Complete Dorsal Vertebra Bone 00021 - Extraordinary 2.28 Inch Kem Kem Unidentified Dinosaur Complete Dorsal Vertebra Bone 00021 - Extraordinary 2.28 Inch Kem Kem Unidentified Dinosaur Complete Dorsal Vertebra Bone 00021 - Extraordinary 2.28 Inch Kem Kem Unidentified Dinosaur Complete Dorsal Vertebra Bone 00021 - Extraordinary 2.28 Inch Kem Kem Unidentified Dinosaur Complete Dorsal Vertebra Bone

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00021 - Extraordinary 2.28 Inch Kem Kem Unidentified Dinosaur Complete Dorsal Vertebra Bone

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Species
Unidentified dinosaur vertebra bone
Age
Upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian stage, (~96 Million Years)
Location
Taouz, Kem Kem Basin, South Morocco
Formation
Tegana Formation, Yellow Sandstone Beds
Size
57x48x33 mm   •    in
Weight
52 g   •    oz
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Description
This is a superb dorsal vertebra coming from the Cretaceous sites in the south of Morocco. It preserves the vertebral body as well as part of the transverse processes and the neural spine. A great part of it is still under a thin layer of the original sandy and gravelly sediment. It possesses a series of fractures that have been glued and restored using the filling method.

This restoration method used by local miners consists in the colmatage of the fractures with a mix of glued sand of the same stratigraphic level where the fossil has been excavated.

Its specific classification is still complicated. Rigorous comparative studies with other published similar rests would be necessary to be able to perform a reliable diagnosis. It probably belongs to some type of small dinosaur of the Dromaeosauridae family or a type of crocodile.
Therefore, this specimen presents an additional scientific interest given the classification difficulty. Hence, it is very appropriate for subject matter experts.

The bone rests from the sites in the south of Morocco are very scarce and valuable because of many reasons. One of them is the very same nature of the geological formation that contains them. The sediments were formed in delta and fluvial environments, where the transportation energy was relatively high. Because of this, any possibility of finding articulated rests is very rare, since the rests of dead animals where transported and deteriorated. That is why only the most robust bones or the most stable parts are usually preserved. Another reason for the lack of complete dinosaur bones in this region is the destructive methodology normally employed by the local miners in their excavations, which in the search of teeth, usually destroy many interesting bone rests.
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