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LOT 2523
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Tooth Group
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 3/4 in. (54 grams total, 46 mm each).
Comprising two teeth with some good enamel, one repaired. [2, No Reserve]
Provenance
From Morocco, West Africa.
Ex 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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