Marine Reptile & Phosphate Fossils
This includes Sea Snakes, Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs, Pliosaurs, and anything else of interest in this large group of animals! Mosasaurus have their own page, please be sure to check out that section of the website
Zarafasaurus oceanis Plesiosaur Vertebrae & Teeth
All teeth here in the plesiosaur tooth section are repaired to some degree but are excellently preserved specimens on phosphate rich sandy matrix and were found at various Moroccan Phosphate mine sites such as the Oulad Abdoun Basin. Artwork: Nobu Tamara. The loose Plesiosaurus vertebrae come from the same location and are quite rare to obtain, certainly more rarer than British ones. All have some repair but please expect that for such age. New Naming for the previously identified elasmosaurid called Plesiosaurus mauretanicus.
(From Wikipedia) Zarafasaura was first named by Peggy Vincent, Nathalie Bardet, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, Baâdi Bouya, Mbarek Amaghzaz and Saïd Meslouh in 2011 and the type species is Zarafasaura oceanis. The generic name is derived from zarafa (ÒÑÇÝÉ), Arabic for "giraffe" (it refers to the name given by the local population to the plesiosaurs found in the phosphates) and saurus, Greek for "lizard". The specific name is derived from oceanis, Latin for "daughter of the sea". Many have been Reduced in Price
Large Sea Snake Vertebrae Paleophis maghrebianus
Paleophis (Palaeophis) maghrebianus sp. Snake Pictures by Nobu Tamura. Fossil Boid Snake from the Eocene phosphates (Ypresian) of the Khouribga plateau mines, Morocco. Each large sized vertebra is gift boxed and labelled and excellent for the collector of marine reptiles. According to many children, this is what fossilized Popcorn looks like! They are in fact from a voracious Serpent of the Seas.
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Large Sea Snake Vertebrae Paleophis maghrebianus
Size: Average 3.0cm wide
Paleophis (Palaeophis) maghrebianus sp. Fossil Boid Snake from the Eocene phosphates (Ypresian) of the Khouribga plateau mines, Morocco. Each large sized vertebra is gift boxed and labelled; excellent for the collector of marine reptiles. According to many children, this is what fossilized Popcorn looks like! They are in fact from a voracious Serpent of the Seas.
Size: Average 3.0cm wide
Paleophis (Palaeophis) maghrebianus sp. Fossil Boid Snake from the Eocene phosphates (Ypresian) of the Khouribga plateau mines, Morocco. Each large sized vertebra is gift boxed and labelled; excellent for the collector of marine reptiles. According to many children, this is what fossilized Popcorn looks like! They are in fact from a voracious Serpent of the Seas.
Snake Pictures by Nobu Tamura.
