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Bones from moroccan phosphate


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Hello everyone,

 

i saw these two fossils from the phosphate and i am not sure about the type of animal. 
 

the first one look like a limb bone (but no idea of the animal) and the secound one like a wing part (maybe from a pterosaur ?).

 

I need confirmation and precision on the identification if someone have an idea.

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Difficult to ID without any scale in the picture.  :(

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Interesting, no idea other than "non marine".

Best Regards,

J

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I think the rooted tooth on the first bone block gives it away in the sense that these appear, to me, to be the lower arm (first block) and leg (second block) bones of a dyrosaurid crocodile. Have a look at the below images for comparison:

 

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That'd make the material of Ypresian, rather than Maastrichtian age.

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Thanks Alexander, I stand corrected, its marine after all.

Just to get even, its Dyrosaurid, not Dryosaurid ;) . Which I learned, to be fair,  from your source after staring in confusion at Dyosaurus pictures for some time.

Cheers,

J

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4 minutes ago, Mahnmut said:

Just to get even, its Dyrosaurid, not Dryosaurid ;)

 

Hahaha! Did I make a typo there then? Seems like I did! :P Will correct it for same of future readers ;)

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