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UNBROKEN SUPER FAT CHOICE GRADE WORN SPINOSAURUS DINOSAUR TOOTH FROM LARGE DINOSAUR WITH MINERAL INCLUSIONS ON SURFACE Tegana Formation - Kem Kem Beds, Morocco LATE CRETACEOUS PERIOD: 96 - 66 million years ago
This is a beautiful Spinosaurus dinosaur tooth with pumpkin orange and brown enamel from a
VERY LARGE Spinosaurus adult dinosaur.
It is in rare form because it is without any repair.
Most fascinating are the natural spherical silicified mineral inclusions
on the surface of the tooth. Despite its shorter length, the worn
tip and fat diameter tells that this came from a monster-size
Spinosaurus. Before the feeding wear, this tooth would have
approached 3.75 inches in length! A size this large is rare now
and this tooth has a very robust cross-sectional size indicating it came
from a very large dinosaur.
This fine specimen has natural feeding wear on the tip from extensive
kills. It is complete
with supreme
preservation. This fine specimen is INTACT with minor crack
stabilization 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.
CHOICE GRADE EXAMPLE IN A LARGE SIZE THAT DISPLAYS HEAVY NATURAL FEEDING WEAR FROM EXTENSIVE KILLS 2.25" long $295 DT5-071 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.
