06747- Top Beautiful 2.34 Inch Enchodus libycus Vertebra Bone Late Cretaceous Carboniferous Plants has no restorations or repairs

has no restorations or repairs

This restoration method used by local miners consists in the colmatage of the fractures with a mix of glued sand of the same stratigraphic level where the fossil has been excavated

The characteristic lines of suture of this cephalopod of the Paleozoic can be perfectly observed

for his pioneering work on fossil vertebrates from the phosphates of North Africa and the Middle East

Great specimen

06747- Top Beautiful 2.34 Inch Enchodus libycus Vertebra Bone Late Cretaceous Carboniferous Plants has no restorations or repairsEnchodus sp, Agassiz 1843 (ray finned fish) Osteichthyes Salmoniformes Enchodontidae Synonym: Tetheodus Cope 1874 Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1843. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome I (livr. 18). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel xxxii 188 Parent taxon: Enchodontidae according to C. Fielitz and K. A. Gonzlez Rodrguez 2010 See also Applegate 1970, Arambourg and Joleaud 1943, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Forey et al. 2003, Holloway et al. 2017,