Mosasaur Dinosaur Age Marine Reptile Tooth Fossil Beautiful & Large for Sale

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Mosasaur Dinosaur Age Marine Reptile Tooth Fossil Beautiful & Large For Sale

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Mosasaur Dinosaur Age Marine Reptile Tooth Fossil Beautiful & Large:
$23.99

This is a real Mosasaur tooth from Morocco.

Mosasaurs were extinct dinosaur age marine reptiles.

The tooth is about 1 1/2\" x 1\"! Quite large.

Fossil comes in a beautiful, unique Mosasaur display case (that you will find nowhere else) and includes a laminated information card.

All fossils sold are authentic fossils, no replicas.

Mosasaur, (family Mosasauridae), extinct group of aquaticlizardsthat attained a high degree ofadaptationto the marineenvironmentand were distributed worldwide during theCretaceous Period(145.5 million to 66 million years ago). The mosasaurs competed with other food, which consisted largely ofammonoids, fish, andcuttlefish. Many mosasaurs of the Late Cretaceous were large. The longest mosasaurs, based on a specimen ofMosasaurus hoffmanni, are estimated to have been 17 meters (about 56 feet) in length, but the most common forms were no larger than modernporpoises.

Mosasaurs had a snakelike body with a large skull and a long snout. Their limbs were modified into paddles having shorter limb bones and more numerous finger and toebonesthan those of their ancestors. The tail region of the body was long, and its end was slightly downcurved in a manner similar to that of the earlyichthyosaurs. Thebackboneconsisted of more than 100 vertebrae. The structure of the skull was very similar to that of the modernmonitor lizards, to which mosasaurs are related. The jaws bore many conical, slightly recurvedteethset in individual sockets. The jawbones are notable in that they were jointed near mid-length (as in some of the advanced monitors) and connected in front byligamentsonly. This arrangement enabled the animals not only to open the mouth by lowering the mandible but also to extend the lower jaws sideways while feeding on large prey.

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