Details
A fine theropod dorsal vertebra with transverse processes attached. The ovoid body in excellent condition, the colour tones are a most attractive dark toffee hue with typical red staining matrix colouration from this renowned fossil location of the Kem Kem Red beds, near Taouz, South East Morocco. The whole very stable and in very good condition. The dorsal spinous or neural process is not present. The centrums and only two traverse processes are in very good preservation as is the whole vertebra. The neural canal (vertebral foramen) is large, vertebral arch and pedicle arch complete, a very good study dinosaur fossil bone.
Often Moroccan fossil diggers seal or cover over damaged or stressed bone finds with fixatives or cosmetically coloured fillers. This can have an aesthetic negative result for any future collector or for scientific study, until at such time that these additives can be removed by a skillful technician. Cleaned back to the original bone surface. Thankfully this is usually possible in a professional laboratory using modern chemical restorers. Often the pasting over of what is assumed defects (palaeontologists, scientists and collectors find more interesting and appealing), becomes unappealing, often obvious, the fillers and additives creating more work. fortunately, these field repairs can normally be undone and a good restoration and preservation can be carried out correctly.
This dinosaur vertebrae is from the same fossil horizon where Nizar Ibrahim made a significant Spinosaurid find, in a detective tale which unfolded in the southern part of Morocco. The bones which led to the eventual discovery of a partial skeleton Nizar finally identified in Italy and with the help of Paul Serrano from the museum of Chicago excavated on the slopes of the Red Beds Hamada in the western desert, the replica of that partial skeleton was composed of bones from various sources and went on display at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C., The exhibition of Spinosaurus, Lost Giant of the Cretaceous Period in April 2015. This current exhibit was discovered in Morocco between 2013 to 2014 made its way to a European source and was secured by our fossil team.
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