Details

LOT 2270

Natural History - Fossil Mosasaur Teeth and Fish Bone Group

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

3 1/4 - 3 3/4 in. (496 grams total, 82-96 mm).

Comprising various fish bone fragments including teeth from Mosasaur prognathodon sp.; on a sandstone matrix. [3, No Reserve]

Provenance

From in the phosphate mine region, Khouribga, Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Footnotes

The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile dinosaur with a snake-like 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.