30 Unidentified Dinosaur, Reptile & Fish Fossils - Kem Kem Beds

Unidentified Dinosaur, Reptile & Fish Fossils - Kem Kem Beds #81607

This is a very interesting lot of 30 unidentified, Late Cretaceous dinosaur, reptile & fish fossils from the Kem Kem Beds of Morocco. There are a number of jaw and skull sections, several of which are probably crocodilian. The largest jaw section is 3" long and would either be crocodile or Spinosaurus. There is also at least one coprolite, some partial shark spines, fish scales, etc.

This is a nice lot for some that enjoys doing research and identification. If identified and sold individually these bones would fetch many times the price of the lot. They've just been sitting on the shelf and we don't have time to do the research so we are selling them as a lot.

The Kem Kem Group is famous for yielding a diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate assemblage, including fish, reptiles, and dinosaurs such as Spinosaurus. These fossils are found in a thin bed that outcrops around the edge of a large plateau near Taouz, Morocco. Local miners collect these fossils by digging narrow tunnels by hand into this plateau, following the layer.

A paper on this assemblage can be found at: Vertebrate assemblages from the early Late Cretaceous of southeastern Morocco: An overview

One of the tunnels dug into the Kem Kem beds by local miners following the productive fossil beds.