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3 INCH ROBUST SPINOSAURUS DINOSAUR TOOTH Tegana Formation - Kem Kem Beds, Morocco LATE CRETACEOUS PERIOD: 96 - 66 million years ago
This is a nice grade Spinosaurus dinosaur tooth with beautiful
rich red enamel from an adult dinosaur.
This genuine specimen is unusually large at 3 inches. It has
cracks that have been stabilized but there are no breaks that have been
repaired. The soil it was found in was very dark red hence the
color. The entire tooth has been sealed to strengthen the cracks.
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 genuine specimen has well-preserved enamel and slight natural
feeding wear on the tip from kills and meals that took place when the
dinosaur was alive. The tooth is complete
and has
NO REPAIR AND NO
FABRICATION.
The entire tooth is present and is of degree of preservation that is becoming difficult
to find 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 social display or as a way to regulate body temperature. 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. NICE LARGE EXAMPLE FROM A VERY LARGE, FULL GROWN SPINOSAURUS DINOSAUR 3" long $345 DT5-076 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.
