C5 - Rare 4.72'' Partial Euclastes sp Paleocene Sea Turtle Skull Phosphate Beds(143935576043)

C5 - Rare 4.72'' Partial Euclastes sp Paleocene Sea Turtle Skull Phosphate Beds

SPECIES Euclastes sp, Cope (1870) - Sea turtle. Skull
AGE Paleocene, Thanetian stage, (~56 Million Years)
LOCATION Oued Zem, Morocco
FORMATION Ouled Abdoun Basin (Phosphate beds)
SIZE 12cm = 4.72 Inch
REF. C5

Observations: Beautiful partial skull bone. Top rare specimen.
Since the first study of Moroccan fossil turtles, and the up-dated overview by Lapparent de Broin of Moroccan fossil turtles, abundant new material has been obtained from the Maastrichtian to the Ypresian phosphatic basins of Morocco. Phosphate turtles belong to the two major groups of extant turtles: Pleurodira, mostly represented by the fossil Bothremydidae (more than ten Palaeogene different genera), and Cryptodira, represented by a Maastrichtian “Dermochelyidae” indet., and fossil cheloniids: Tasbacka ouledabdounensis Tong & Hirayama, 2002, Thanetian, Argillochelys africana Tong & Hirayama, 2008, Ypresian and “Euclastes group” elements, including “Aff. Rhetechelys sp.” estimated as Maastrichtian in age and two Palaeocene
species recently attributed to Euclastes wielandi. We also find in the Early Paleocene the genus Brachyopsemys tingitana. A Giant Chelonioid Turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco with a suction feeding apparatus uinique among tetrapods (Ocepechelon bouyai) is recently described.

No restored. It has only been stabilized to make it gain consistency and long-term stability.