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SEA FLOOR CEMETERY OF VERTEBRATE REMAINS FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS DEPOSITS OF THE OULAD ABDOUIN BASIN MOROCCO  

A MASS OF RAY AND FISH VERTEBRA WITH SOME INDETERMINATE BONE

NUMEROUS  RAY  VERTEBRA. SEVERAL

FISH VERTEBRA AND COPROLITES.

A ' BARBED ' FRAGMENT OF BONE AND A

NUMBER OF INDETERMINATE BONE FRAGMENTS

POSSABLE CROCODILE VERTEBRA

FISH AND RAY VERTEBRA

? CROCODILE VERTEBRA LOWER LEFT CENTRE

A ? CRETOLAMNA biauriculata maroccana shark tooth

A LARGE FISH COPROLITE AND FISH VERTEBRA

WITH RAY VERTEBRA

A FINE SQUALICORAX pristodontus SHARK TOOTH

AMOUNGST   RAY AND FISH VERTEBRA

COPROLITES AND INDETERMINATE BONE

A ? CRETOLAMNA sp. SHARK TOOTH

TIPS OF TWO ?  ENCHODUS libycus  TEETH

RAY VERTEBRA, FISH COPROLITE, BONE

DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE MATRIX IN WHICH THESE REMAINS ARE PRESERVED ( A FINE GRAINED FRIABLE SAND ) THE MATRIX HAS BEEN CONSOLIDATED AND SUPPORTED IN A CASE WITH A RECONSTITUTED ORINGNAL MATRIX

LARGEST RAY VERTEBRA : 30mm DIA.  LARGEST FISH VERTEBRA : 22mm DIA. SQUALICORAX : 25mm. CRETOLAMNA : 20mm.  

60 plus RAY VERTEBRA  -  30 plus FISH VERTEBRA  -  3 CREATOLAMNA TEETH  -  2 ENCHODUS TEETH  -  1 SQUALICORAX TOOTH  -  1 CROCODILE VERTEBRA

VARIOUS INDETERMINATE BONE

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CASE SIZE : 650 mm x 420mm x 130mm

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HYPHALOSAURUS lingyuanensis

UPPER JURASSIC - LOWER CRETACEOUS

LINGUAN

LIAONING PROVINCE

CHINA

A FINE LARGE EXAMPLE OF THE ICONIC UPPER JURASSIC - LOWER CRETACEOUS REPTILE HYPHALOSAURUS lingyuanensis FROM LIAONING PROVINCE CHINA.

DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE MATRIX FROM WHICH THESE REPTILES ARE COLLECTED ( A FRIABLE " PAPER SHALE " OF VOLCANIC ASH ) ALL FOSSILS RECOVERED FROM THIS DEPOSIT ARE IN PIECES WHICH ARE REASSEMBILED.

 

IN THIS EXAMPLE I HAVE REASSAMBILED THE SPECIMEN AND BONDED IT TO A PLYWOOD BACKING ENCLOSED WITHIN A SLIP FRAME.

REASSAMBLEY  INEVITABLY MEANS THAT THERE IS SOME RESTORATION AND  RECONSTRUCTION TO THE JOINS IN THE MATRIX AND BONE

 

EXAMPLES OF HYPHALOSAURUS  OF THIS SIZE AND QUALITY ARE HARD TO FIND  NOW ALTHOUGH  SOME " BABY "  EXAMPLES CAN STILL BE FOUND

SIZE: MATRIX > 565mm x 250mm. REPTILE: 600mm when straight. TRUNK : SOULDER GIRDLE TO HIP GIRDLE >100mm

 

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A FINE LARGE EXAMPLE OF A BRAZILIAN SANTANA FORMATION FISH

                                 VINCTIFER comptioni

CRETACEOUS

SANTANA FORMATION

ARARIPE BASIN

BRAZIL

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FROM A OLD COLLECTION PREPARED BY ME TO MODERN STANDARDS

 

AT 60 cms IN LENGTH IT IS AT THE UPPER END IN SIZE AND RETAINS THE ELONGATED ROSTRUM CHARACTERISTIC OF THIS SPECIES.

 

FROM ITS LARGE SIZE AND COMPLETENESS WITHIN THE CONCRETION  IT IS PROBABLY  FROM THE

" OLD MISSION "  ASSEMBLAGE .

 

AS IS COMMON WITH THE LARGE SANTANA FISH CONCRETIONS THIS EXAMPLE WAS COLLECTED IN THREE PARTS AND REASSEMBLED 

SIZE: 60cm IN LENGTH

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