20934 - Beautiful Malachite Crystals on Barite Matrix - Taouz Barite Mines (Morocco) Dinosaur Parent taxon: Styginidae according to

Parent taxon: Styginidae according to P

External nostrils at the posterior end of its snout and an internal naris in its pterygoid indicated a habit of hunting while swimming with the top of the head above the water

It has small glued fracture at the base of one tooth

It is nicely preserved

20934 - Beautiful Malachite Crystals on Barite Matrix - Taouz Barite Mines (Morocco) Dinosaur Parent taxon: Styginidae according toMalachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral, with the formula Cu2CO3(OH)2. This opaque, green banded mineral crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system, and most often forms botryoidal, fibrous, or stalagmitic masses, in fractures and spaces, deep underground, where the water table and hydrothermal fluids provide the means for chemical precipitation. Individual crystals are rare but do occur as slender to acicular prisms. Pseudomorphs after