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SUBMITTER: Maganuco S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5984586 | biostudies-other | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Maganuco Simone S Dal Sasso Cristiano C
PeerJ 20180530
We describe a nearly complete pedal ungual phalanx, discovered in the Kem Kem Beds (Cenomanian) of Tafilalt region, south-eastern Morocco. The bone is symmetric, pointed, low, elongate, and almost flat ventrally in lateral aspect. This peculiar morphology allows to refer the specimen to the smallest known individual of the genus <i>Spinosaurus</i>. The bone belongs to an early juvenile individual and it is proportionally identical to the ungual of the third digit of a large partial skeleton rece ...[more]