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INTACT PLATECARPUS TOOTH WITH IMPACTED ROOT Khouribga, Morocco LATE CRETACEOUS PERIOD: 73 - 65 million years ago Unlike the countless faked Mosasaur teeth with roots on the market made from plaster, here is a GENUINE tooth intact with the complete root. The prime indicator to separate a genuine specimen from a fake is the deep porosity of the real root. This cannot be replicated in a cast root. The last photo shows the detail by which this example can be authenticated. This textbook perfect Platecarpus tooth with root is a superb example with a gorgeous enamel and color on the crown. Furthermore, it has not been repaired or restored! To make for a fascinating specimen, the root shows the full and deep depression where the emerging tooth that followed this tooth had impacted this root eventually pushing it out of the jaw. You can plainly see where the impacted area reached the nerve and nourishment center as this area is hollow. This is the deepest impacted root on a tooth we have seen in some time. As a complete and 100% genuine specimen with no work done to it, we recommend this example with our highest praise.
Mosasaurs
were the largest lizards that ever evolved and attained lengths of
almost 60
feet with a skull 6 foot long!
The mosasaur was a powerful swimmer who spent its entire life in the sea.
Mosasaurs had long and powerful bodies whose tails and limbs were adapted
for swimming. They probably swam by moving their long body in a
snake-like way, also using their finned tail to propel them forwards. They
steered with small, webbed feet. Mosasaurs had long heads, strong and flexible necks and hydrofoil-like limbs. Their large jaws had stabbing teeth and had a hinge in the mid-lower jaw similar to modern day constrictor snakes.
Mosasaurs ate large fish, shellfish, sharks and some ate mollusks. They lived during the same period T. rex roamed the earth. Mosasaurs can easily be considered the T. rex of the prehistoric seas! Such creatures were true hunter-killers that had no rival during their existence. BEST PRESERVATION AND FEATURE MOSASAUR TOOTH WITH ROOT WE HAVE EVER OFFERED! 2.5" in length on the leading curve $165 DT306 INCLUDES DISPLAY BOX Actual Item - One Only |
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MOSASAUR by BRIAN CHOO THIS IMAGE IS PROTECTED BY A STRICTLY ENFORCED COPYRIGHT AND MAY NOT BE USED IN ANY WAY |
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in the second half of the 1700's, geologists made a remarkable discovery
near the southernmost city of the Netherlands. A huge skull
was unearthed belonging to a gigantic reptile which had lived 65 million
years ago in the waters around what is now Maastricht. The creature was
later named the mosasaur, meaning ‘lizard of the Meuse or Maas river'. 
This enabled them to swallow huge prey.