03222 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Obaichthys Have been cleaned and prepared

Have been cleaned and prepared to unearth it from its natural carbonaceous matrix

we can observe a fly (Trychoptera - Caddisfly)

The color of the enamel is really nice

It was very large

03222 - Beautiful Well Preserved Rare Gar Fish Scale (Obaichthys africanus) From Kem Kem Basin Obaichthys Have been cleaned and preparedThe 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