20418 - Great Collection of 2 Pterosaur (Coloborhynchus) Teeth Cretaceous KemKem Beds Quartz Minerals were located and identified

Minerals were located and identified using BSE mode on Hitachi S3000N SEM coupled with an X-ray detector Bruker XFlash 3001 for microanalysis (EDS) and mapping

American Museum Novitates 3379:1-20

Ancyropyge

The details of the anatomy of the superficial osseous structure of the root are extremely well preserved

Nice eyes facets

20418 - Great Collection of 2 Pterosaur (Coloborhynchus) Teeth Cretaceous KemKem Beds Quartz Minerals were located and identifiedPrecious collection of two nice teeth of this species of pterosaur. The pterosaurs dentition rests in the Upper Cretaceous in North Africa are relatively common among the fauna which got preserved from those ecosystems around 100 million years ago. However, only two different pterosaur taxons have been described. Mader & Kellner (1999) (Full reference: B. J. Mader and A. W. A. Kellner. 1999. A new anhanguerid pterosaur from the Cretaceous of Morocco.