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UNBROKEN 3.2 INCH FINE SPINOSAURUS DINOSAUR TOOTH Tegana Formation - Kem Kem, Morocco LATE CRETACEOUS PERIOD: 96 - 66 million years ago
This is a beautiful Spinosaurus dinosaur tooth with pumpkin orange and brown enamel from an adult dinosaur.
It is in rare form because it is without any repair. Unbroken
teeth over 3 inches from this dinosaur are not common!
This fine specimen has natural feeding wear on the tip and some
mineralized sand on the surface on one side as shown above. It is complete
and the crown is the full length of the tooth, that portion on the base
that looks like root is the sandstone matrix stuck to the enamel and the
other side shows none of these matrix to see the full crown.
Overall very nice
preservation. This fine specimen is INTACT and has
NO REPAIR AND NO RESTORATION. An
excellent and very displayable specimen from a Spinosaurus
dinosaur.
The entire tooth is present and is of quality that is becoming difficult
to find in today's market in an unaltered state.
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.
FINE GRADE EXAMPLE IN A LARGE SIZE THAT IS VERY RARE FOR BEING AN UNBROKEN TOOTH FROM AN ADULT DINOSAUR 3.2" long $295 DT5-053 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.
