Name: Siroccopteryx moroccensis, Pterosauria, Anhangueridae
Age: Middle Cretaceous, Albian Stage
Size: (25.4mm=1 inch): 40 mm diagonal length, 10 mm base width.
Location: Kem-Kem Basin, South of Taouz, Morocco
Code: PTT002
Price: $65.00 - sold
 Description:
This is a fine example of a tooth from the pterosaur Siroccopteryx
 moccensis
coming from the Middle Cretaceous Albian Stage deposits of the Kem-Kem
Basin, Morocco. This is the first pterosaur to be described from Morocco
(1999 by Bryn J. Mader, who described the first ever pterosaur from
Africa). The remains are spotty, consisting mostly of teeth, jaw and
arm fragments, but some think this flying reptile had 6 m wingspan.
Its closest relatives were found in Cretaceous deposits in Brazil.
Notice the curvature to the tooth which would have helped it to hold
onto anything it grasped. Pterosaur teeth are far less commonly available
than dinosaur, a reflection on their fragile nature. |
