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North Africa, Drâa-Tafilalet
Taouz
Kem Kem Escarpment Fossil Beds
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Shark teethAlso reported: crocodile scutes, turtle fragments.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: Cretaceous Kem Kem Group vertebrate beds
Deposits Magazine documents the commercial dinosaur mines south of Taouz, worked since a herder's 1991 find; published theropod tooth studies from the same beds
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Fatal shaft collapses recordedUnstable tunnels in cliff faces, extreme remoteness and heat
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