88400 - Top Rare Undescribed Pharyngeal Tooth Of Unidentified Cretaceous Fish KemKem
88400 - Top Rare Undescribed Pharyngeal Tooth Of Unidentified Cretaceous Fish KemKem 88400 - Top Rare Undescribed Pharyngeal Tooth Of Unidentified Cretaceous Fish KemKem

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88400 - Top Rare Undescribed Pharyngeal Tooth Of Unidentified Cretaceous Fish KemKem

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Species
Pycnodontid Pharyngeal Tooth
Age
Upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian stage, (~96 Million Years)
Location
Taouz, Kem Kem Basin, South Morocco
Formation
Ifezouane Formation, Red Sandstone Beds
Size
23.6 mm   •    in
Weight
1 g   •    oz
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Description

That specimen does like a claw but isn´t it. Any paleontologist has stated formally that the teeth said informally to belong to pterosaurs do belong to pterosaurs. However, the claws  has seen identified as pterosaurs may actually be pharyngeal teeth of a fish. These "claws" look like claws on the claw end. They even have a groove like a claw but the other end does not have a joint where a toe phalanx bone would fit. It's just sort of a rounded and flattened shape.

In the Ifezouane Fm were some very weird fish with very weird teeth particularly among the pycnodontids.

Here you can read the discussion on this topic in Fossil Forum:

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