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Kem Kem ribs ID


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Just got some small rib sections and another bone, the ribs don't look like crocodile, I know it can be difficult to give an I'd on parts of bone but was wondering if it could be mosasaur or maybe land based? Bones are from the Kem Kem beds

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Sorry cannot help you with an ID on these rib fragments but can say that there are lots of Crocodyliforms in the Kem Kem that take different shapes and sizes that would fit your specimens.  Very few publications are out there to compare against.  

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Thanks Troodon, looking at the two similar ones, maybe you are right, the curved bottom part looks different though in shape, it doesn't have the little indented ridge on it but instead has a protruding ridge and it is hollow inside unlike the other two

 

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That last piece looks like a possible humerus. And if so it might be identifiable.

 

There are also no Mosasaurs in the Kem Kem beds.

Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite

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