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LOT 2920
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Jaw Fragment
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
6 5/8 in. (229 grams, 17 cm).
A composite jaw fragment set with five teeth. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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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