Description
Stegosaur tooth – Adratiklit?
Middle Jurassic
El Mers Formation
Boulemane, Morocco
12mm fully rooted stegosaur tooth on 47mm matrix. First we have ever seen.
Excavations in the Jurassic El Mers III Formation continue to bring new discoveries. One of the latest is a new stegosaur called Adratiklit boulahfa. It possessed unusual dermal armor and adds to the otheriwse sparse record of stegosaurs worldwide.
The new stegosaur is described here (Paywalled unfortunately): North Africa’s first stegosaur: Implications for Gondwanan thyreophoran dinosaur diversity
Another new stegosaur from the El Mers III Formation can be found here (PDF): Thyreosaurus
