Unidentified Titanosaur
 
Era: Mesozoic
 
Period: Cretaceous
 
Age: Cenomanian-Turonian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)
 
Formation: Ifezouane (Red Sand)
 
Provenance: Kem-Kem Valley, Begaa, near Taouz
 
Region: Drâa-Tafilalet
 
Province: Errachidia, Morocco
 
Coordinates: 30°53'53.7"N 3°51'48.6"W
 
Dimensions: 33 x 10 x 7 mm / 1.30" x 0.39" x 0.28"
 
Weight: 3.2 g / 0.11 oz
 
Description: Tooth of a sauropod dinosaur in good condition, 100% natural, without repairs. Fossil remains of herbivores are very uncommon in this location.
 

 
Information: Los Lechos The Kem Kem fossils are located in southeastern Morocco, near the border with Algeria. They constitute one of the most important fossil assemblages of the African Cretaceous and are formed by a succession of fluvial and deltaic deposits accumulated between the Late Albian and the Cenomanian.
 

 
Contrary to popular belief, Kem Kem does not correspond to a single site or a single ecosystem. It is a geological group composed of several sedimentary formations that represent different environments and periods in time. Among these, the Ifezouane and Gara Sbaa formations stand out, constituting the lower part of the sequence, as well as the Aoufous and Douira formations, which represent more recent levels.
 

 
The fossils recovered at Kem Kem include an extraordinary diversity of vertebrates, including sharks, bony fish, coelacanths, turtles, crocodiles, pterosaurs, dinosaurs, and birds. Among the dinosaurs are some of the largest known terrestrial predators, such as Spinosaurus. Spinosaurus aegyptiacus and Carcharodontosaurus saharicus.
 

 
However, not all the animals found at Kem Kem necessarily coexisted at the same time. Many come from different stratigraphic levels within the sedimentary sequence, which records several million years of geological history. Therefore, Kem Kem should be understood as an exceptional window into the ecosystems of the African Cretaceous rather than as the representation of a single biological community.
 

 
Among the most spectacular finds at Kem Kem are the remains of some of the largest known predatory dinosaurs, such as Spinosaurus aegyptiacus and Carcharodontosaurus saharicus.
 

 
Sauropod remains are considerably scarcer than those of predatory dinosaurs in the Kem Kem Beds. Among the identified sauropods, Rebbachisaurus garasbae stands out, a rebbachisaurid known from partial remains. However, the absence of associated cranial material makes it difficult to accurately identify the isolated teeth found in the region.
 

 
In addition to Rebbachisaurus, the Kem Kem deposits have provided evidence of the presence of large titanosaurs, including vertebral remains belonging to exceptionally large individuals. Due to the fragmentary nature of the fossil record, many sauropod teeth recovered from the area are conservatively assigned to Titanosauria indet., reflecting the difficulty of accurately determining the genus or species of origin.
 

 
For this reason, the titanosaur teeth from Kem Kem are particularly interesting fossils, as they document one of the least-known groups of herbivorous dinosaurs from this famous Cretaceous African ecosystem.
 

 
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