Rostral Barb/Tooth of a Sawfish - Morocco (Copy)
Rostral Barb/Tooth of a Sawfish - Morocco (Copy)
Location: Kem Kem Beds in Taouz (Northwest Sahara Desert), Morocco
Size: 2.73 x 0.98 x 0.51 inches
Sawfish – Onchopristis (not technically a sawfish) is a genus of extinct giant sawskate that lived during the Upper Cretaceous in what is now North Africa. It had a long hard shovel-shaped snout called a rostrum that grew to about 2 meters long and was lined with these tooth like structures (denticals).
Like most of these there has been some repair but this is still a very nice and scary piece.