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UNBROKEN FINEST GRADE BEAUTIFUL SPINOSAURUS DINOSAUR TOOTH Tegana Formation - Kem Kem, Morocco LATE CRETACEOUS PERIOD: 96 - 66 million years ago
This is a beautiful Spinosaurus dinosaur tooth with dark red and brown
tones in the superb enamel from an adult dinosaur.
It is in rare form because it is without any repair. Unbroken
teeth of this size and quality of preservation from this dinosaur are not common!
This fine specimen has natural feeding wear on the tip but it is complete
with even a portion of the root.
Overall color and preservation is spectacular, there's not many of these
teeth around any more! This fine specimen is
INTACT
and has
NO REPAIR AND NO RESTORATION. An
excellent and very displayable specimen from a Spinosaurus
dinosaur.
The tooth is of quality 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. SUPREME QUALITY UNBROKEN SPECIMEN - RARE IN THIS QUALITY OF PRESERVATION AND DARK COLOR 2.65" long $295 DT5-081 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.
