scale fish - Fossil vertebra bone - Lepidotes Pawdoski

Excellent set of ganoid vertebrae and scales of Lepidotes Pawdoski, large in size and very well preserved.
Beautiful color, typical of the material that comes from this area of river deposits, the red sands of the beds of Kem-Kem.
The Kem-Kem basin is located along the border between Morocco and Algeria.
They are continental deposits where several vertebrate species have been discovered, including elasmobranchs, bony fishes, coelacanths, turtles, pterosaurs, dinosaurs, birds, and crocodiles.
They have referred to this place as an area where danger lurks by land, sea, and air.
This animal belongs to an extinct genus of lepidostid fishes, like large fish such as sturgeons and sawfish, that inhabited South America, Africa, and southern Europe during the Cretaceous period.