Massive Mosasaur Dinosaur Tooth Fossil With Full Root Matrix 4. 5 " Inches
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Reference Number: Avaluer:4396969 | Country/Region of Manufacture: Morocco |
Featured Refinements: Dinosaur Tooth |
Measures 4.5" inches Item #2
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Mosasaurs are anextinct group of large Marine Dinosaurs that probably evolved from anextinct group of aquatic Lizards known aigialosaurs in the EarlyCretaceous 100 million years ago specifically during the last 20million years of the Cretaceous period. After the extinction ofichthyosaurs and the decline o...f plesiosaurs, Mosasaurs became one ofthe most dominant marine predators.Mosasaurs breathedair, were powerful swimmers living in the warm shallow inland seas.They gave birth to live young rather thanreturning to the shore to lay eggs.Mosasaurs weretypically longer than 25 feet. Currently the largest Mosasaur skeletonin the world is on display is just over 43 feet long. Mosasaursate mollusks with shells similar to that of Nautilus which were abundant in the Cretaceous seas as well as fish, turtlesand even sharks using there double-hinged jaws and flexible skulls resembling those of modern reptiles.Thank you for bidding!