03223 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Ceratodus humei These are two quadrate bones

These are two quadrate bones of the Cretaceous Coelacanth Mawsonia lavocati

This piece has a very special position within our dinosaur bones collection

You can see how that fly is bodily associated with another insect that can not be well identified

They do not belong to the same specimen

and its mouth and gills were under its body

03223 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Ceratodus humei These are two quadrate bonesThe abundant fish fauna which can be found in the Cretaceous layers of the Kem Kem Basin is large and varied. Recently Cavin et al., (2015) made an important revision of the Cretaceous association of continental fish in the south of Morocco. Link: "Taxonomic Composition and Trophic Structure of the Continental Bony Fish Assemblage from the Early Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Morocco" The scales of many of this teleost fish have a wonderful