Natural History - Fossil Mosasaur Jaw Fragment

LATE CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 70 MILLION YEARS B.P.

3 in. (63 grams, 76 mm).

A section of a jaw with two Igdamanosaurus aegyptiacus teeth. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the Oulad Abdoun Basin, Morocco, North Africa.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.

Footnotes

Most Mosasaurs had sharp teeth that had evolved to grab slippery prey such as fish. Igdamanosaurus had semi-spherical teeth with rounded points, which were better suited for crushing tough-armoured prey such as turtles, ammonites, nautili, and bivalves.

CONDITION

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LOT 2534