This is a genuine fossilized Mosasaur tooth. Mosasaur was a marine reptile with four large paddles and a large, powerful tail. It had a loosely hinged jaw which allowed it to swallow its prey almost whole. Mosasaurs lived about 85-65 million years ago.
THE TOOTH PICTURED IS NOT THE ACTUAL ONE YOU WILL RECEIVE IF YOU PURCHASE THIS ITEM, BUT IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE SIZE AND QUALITY OF THESE TEETH. There are numerous teeth pictured so you can see how the teeth vary but you will receive ONE TOOTH. These teeth measure 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inch in length.
A color information label is included with the tooth that tells about the fossil. A certificate of authenticity is also included. Kids love these fossil teeth!
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Mosasaur
| Mosasaurs Fossil range: Late Cretaceous, 85–65 Ma |
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| Tylosaurus specimen nicknamed "Bruce" | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Lepidosauria |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Scleroglossa |
| Infraorder: | Anguimorpha |
| Superfamily: | †Mosasauroidea |
| Family: | †Mosasauridae Gervais, 1853 |
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Mosasaurs (from Latin Mosa meaning the 'Meuse river', and Greek sauros meaning 'lizard') are large extinct marine lizards. The first fossil remains were discovered in a limestone quarry at Maastricht on the Meuse in 1764. Mosasaurs are now considered to be the closest relatives of snakes, due to cladistic analyses that have taken into account similarities in jaw and skull anatomies.[1] Mosasaurs were varanoids closely related to terrestrial monitor lizards. They probably evolved from semi-aquatic squamates[2] known as aigialosaurs, which were more similar in appearance to modern-day monitor lizards, in the Early Cretaceous. During the last 20 million years of the Cretaceous Period (Turonian-Maastrichtian), with the extinction of the ichthyosaurs and pliosaurs, mosasaurs became the dominant marine predators.
