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LOT 2370
Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Tooth Group
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 3/4 - 2 1/2 in. (60 grams total, 46-65 mm).
Comprising three Mosasaur Prognathodon teeth, each showing good enamel. [3, No Reserve]
Provenance
From Ouled Abdoun Basin, Morocco, West Africa.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
Footnotes
The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile dinosaur with an elongated body, long snout and paddle-like limbs. Found worldwide, they competed with other well-known sea predators of the Late Cretaceous, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, for food, existing primarily on a diet of ammonoids, cuttlefish and fish.
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