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INTACT ROBUST LARGE SPINOSAURUS TOOTH Tegana Formation - Kem Kem, Morocco LATE CRETACEOUS PERIOD: 96 - 66 million years ago Compared to just a few years ago, the number of fine quality Spinosaurus teeth found in the market has greatly diminished, especially those truly over 3 inches. We are seeing more and more large and impressive-looking dinosaur teeth show up in the market with extensive repair and restoration or being deceptively fabricated from multiple teeth and being dishonestly sold as having no repair or restoration.
Here we have a INTACT 2.5 inch example with dark blood red enamel from a
full-grown adult dinosaur. Tip shows interesting natural feeding
wear from when the dinosaur was alive. Rare for adult dinosaur
teeth, this fine specimen is unbroken and has
NO REPAIR and NO RESTORATION. An
excellent and very displayable specimen from a mature Spinosaurus
dinosaur. This tooth
is of a size that is becoming difficult to find in an honest, unaltered
state in today's
market.
Spinosaurus is one of the
longest and strangest of all carnivorous dinosaurs. At 50 feet long
and 4 tons in weight, it was truly a monster! Its most unusual
feature was a row of broad club-shaped spines 6 feet tall, projecting
upward from the backbone. It's believed that these spines were
covered with a sail of skin which could be raised by the creature as a
To this day, no other dinosaur has been found with such tall and broad-shaped neural spines. Fossil remains of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus are only found in the North African Sahara Desert. Contrary to the inhospitable desert environment where Spinosaurus fossils are found today, this region was a vast swampy tropical paradise abundant with life during the Cretaceous Period when Spinosaurus was alive and inhabiting its muddy river shores and bogs.
ROBUST EXAMPLE WITH NO BREAKS, REPAIR OR RESTORATION FROM A LARGE ADULT DINOSAUR 2.5" long SOLD DT5-038 INCLUDES DISPLAY BOX Actual Item - One Only |
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The
remains of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus were first
discovered by a German collector in 1912 in central Egypt. A variety
of pieces were recovered including a skull and teeth. On the evening
of April 24, 1944, a British bombing run on Munich destroyed these and
many other rare fossil specimens.
social display or as a way to regulate body temperature.
