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Hello everyone! I recently added this crocodile tooth to my collection, please can someone help me identify the family or genus? Sisi Daoui mine, Ouled Abdoun Basin (Morocco) Probably Maastrichtian layer Dimention: 5cm
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Hi there everyone. I’m embarrassed to even ask this, but I would have sworn, since it last came up for me, many years ago, that Dyrosaurus came from the Cretaceous Kem Kem beds, but everything I’m seeing now says it’s from the Eocene. So Dyrosaurus is an Eocene crocodile and would not be coming from the Kem Kem beds? Would an elosuchus probably be what would have come from the Kem Kem beds that might be mistaken for a Dyrosaurus? My knowledge of this partial jaw is that it came from the Kem Kem beds, but it was said to probably be from a dyrosaurus. It wasn’t a definitive statement, but that was the thinking. Some of elosuchus jaws I look at seem like the could match very well, but some seem off, and I would just like the thoughts of anyone who would know better than I would(most people). Thanks any and everyone who were able to help!
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Hi everybody! Last month i saw this tooth on sale and it was love at first sight But from the beginning i understood that what it was and how it be presented are not on the same page... Luckily i know the seller pretty well and we trust each other...so i asked info before make the purchase...He told me that his provider (directly from Morocco) told him that the tooth was a Dyrosaurus phosphaticus but that he was not confident about the ID...the moroccan provider told to my friend/seller that was the first time that he saw a totth like that and its first idea of ID was D.phosphaticus. So provider was not sure, the seller just report the same ID given by the provider...and after hearing this story, i was even more convinced that i was on the good path...this is NOT a D.phosphaticus tooth...but for me, it was not a crocodilian tooth at all. Then i started to wondering what could it be...and i have reached two possibilities: 1) Spinosauridae: like Baryonyx/Suchosaurus 2) Pliosauridae: like Liopleuridon or Simolestes The specific features of the tooth (well conserved on labial side, damaged on lingual side, full carinae, intact root) are: - 2 marked, smooth carinae - 9 labial ridges - less evident lingual ridges - smooth enamel Other info: Origin: Khourigba - Morocco Age: Maastrichtian - Upper Cretaceous (doubtful) Lenght: 5.5cm / 2.16 inches What do you think about it? Someone can recognize it? Let me know and thanks to everybody!
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A suspicious looking crocodile
FF7_Yuffie posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
From the Morocco phosphate beds. It is described as repaired in places. But, I dunno, it looks suspicious to me. The teeth look placed in. What are others thoughts? Maybe im wrong and its,real. Or real and not the best prep job? Any thoughts would be great.- 7 replies
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From the album: Marine reptiles and mammals
Unidentified Cretaceous crocodile species, suggested by multiple people, to appear to be a Dyrosaurus, came from the second phosphatic layer of a phosphate mine(what a shocker!)around the suburbs of Khouribga, Morocco. Original teeth, not replacements. Have gone through and cleaned up the base of some of the ones that had some sand around them.- 2 comments
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From the album: Marine reptiles and mammals
Side view of croc jaw.-
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