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Plesiosaur (Elasmosaurus) Tooth Age: Cretaceous Formation: Phosphate Beds Location: Khouribga Basin, Morocco Size: Tooth is 1.4 inches long This specimen is not for sale Click here for similar specimens that are for sale
Here is a wonderful tooth from an extinct Plesiosaur. This tooth is from the Cretaceous deposits of Morocco. Plesiosaurs were large, vicious marine reptiles. They had extremely long necks and fairly lengthy tails. They swam by means of legs and feet that had developed into oarlike paddles. This tooth is wonderfully 3-dimensional and beautifully preserved. The corrugated, multi-colored enamel is excellent, and the tip exhibits almost no natural wear from use. This dagger-shaped tooth still has a portion of the root intact. The fossil has superb natural color and contrasts well with the sand-colored matrix. The fossil is well showcased on the large block of sandstone - NATURAL, NOT COMPOSITED on the plate. This is a very cool example of a Plesiosaur tooth from the Cretaceous seas.