rocket Posted December 8, 2024 Posted December 8, 2024 I have a nice small (approx. 3 cm, 1.4") vertebrae from Morocco / KemKem What do you think? I think it is croc, but this is one I am not totally sure... thanks for your comments!
Jaybot Posted December 8, 2024 Posted December 8, 2024 Can't help with ID, but... nice photography 1 1 -Jay Aspiring Naturalist “The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men.” ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted December 9, 2024 Posted December 9, 2024 With the long barrel-shaped and waisted centrum, high scaffolding of the neural arch, and amphicoelous nature of the articulation, I'd certainly say this is crocodile. But maybe @LordTrilobite and @jpc have differing opinions... 1 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett
jpc Posted December 9, 2024 Posted December 9, 2024 I do not have a differing opinion. Looks like a mesosuchian croc vert to me. Most of the croc material I deal with is neosuchain which have ball and socket ends to the vertebrae. The flatter ends suggest mesosuchian... an extinct group of crocodilians. 2 1
LordTrilobite Posted December 9, 2024 Posted December 9, 2024 I agree. Looks like croc. 2 Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite
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