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LOT 2417
Large Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Tooth Plate
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
18 3/4 in. (9.75 kg, 47.5 cm).
Comprising fourteen teeth, one with only a tip visible, and various jaw fragments set on a sedimentary matrix wrapped in a plaster field jacket.
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Mosasaurs (from the Greek for 'lizard') were aquatic dinosaurs which probably gave birth to live young.
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