Details

LOT 2813

Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Tooth on Composite Rock

CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.

5 7/8 in. (567 grams, 15 cm).

The tooth showing dark brown enamel, set in a sandstone matrix with a composite root for display. [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.