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LOT 2543
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Teeth
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 1/8 - 4 5/8 in. (726 grams total, 10.6-11.8 cm).
Comprising two Mosasaur prognathodon sp. teeth set on individual composite matrices. [2, No Reserve]
Provenance
From Germany.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Footnotes
Mosasaurs (from the Greek for 'lizard') were aquatic dinosaurs which probably gave birth to live young.
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