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LOT 2524
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Tooth with Root
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 in. (125 grams, 10.4 cm).
A large Mosasaur prognathodon sp. tooth with some root, fragment of a second tooth beneath the root. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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