Species: Sauropoda indet.
Formation: Very Likely El Mers III
Locality: Likely Atlas Mountains, Morocco
Age: Likely Jurassic, 182 -164 Ma
This is a Sauropod Vertebra Bone fossil from Morocco. When we bought this lot, it had some unfinished restoration on many of the pieces, the gray clay seen here. It is well-bonded to the bone and quite durable, it just needs to be color- and texture-matched.
Sauropods were large, herbivorous Dinosaurs with long necks and tails, and were the largest animals to have ever lived on land. Fossils from Morocco can be quite difficult to determine, but this Bone is likely from the Middle Jurassic Period and the Atlas Mountains. Possible species include Atlasaurus imelakei, Tazoudasaurus naimi, a third species informally known as “Cetiosaurus” mogrebiensis.