Natural History - Mosasaur Fossil Bone and Tooth Group

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

2 1/2 - 3 5/8 in. (419 grams total, 64-92 mm).

Comprising three sandstone matrices with Mosasaur Prognathodon sp. teeth and bone fragments, including fossil fish and other remains. [3, No Reserve]

Provenance

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

Footnotes

Mosasaurs (from the Greek for 'lizard') were aquatic dinosaurs which probably gave birth to live young. The Mosasaur is an extinct, large dinosaur-like marine reptile 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.

CONDITION

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