07433 - Beautiful 0.55 Inch Stephanodus Partial Dentary Bone in Natural Matrix Late Cretaceous Saharops Although they are exceedingly rare

Although they are exceedingly rare when compared to terrestrial rocks

would shed some light on the specific description of at least one of these new carnivorous dinosaur taxons

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Sister taxa: Acastidae

Nipponocalymene

07433 - Beautiful 0.55 Inch Stephanodus Partial Dentary Bone in Natural Matrix Late Cretaceous Saharops Although they are exceedingly rareRare species belonging to the Trigonodontoidae family. This type of specimens in the fossil record of the Upper Cretaceous phosphates of the Ouled Abdoun Basin are not common. Stephanodus sp, Zittel 1883 (ray finned fish) Osteichthyes Tetraodontiformes Trigonodontoidae Parent taxon: Trigonodontoidae according to G. R. Case and D. R. Schwimmer 1988 See also Kumar and Loyal 1987 Subtaxa: Stephanodus lybicus Ecology: nektonic carnivore Environments: