Lot 678
T-Rex Pre-Maxilary 1.9 Inch Tooth. Virtually all T-Rex teeth found are shed teeth that broke off when the T-Rex was feeding on some other dinosaur. Usually these teeth are just fragments or are broken into many pieces, but this large 1.9 inch Pre-Maxilary tooth is the exception. There is no restoration to this magnificent tooth, with most of the enamel surface intact and very good serrations. There is some natural feeding wear on the enamel at the tip that occurred when the T-Rex was still alive. This is a large Pre-Maxilary tooth from an adult T-Rex as the Pre-Maxilary teeth are smaller than the teeth further back in the jaw and were used to strip meat from the bone. They are very distinctive in having two rows of serrations close together on the inner curve of the tooth versus having one row of serrations on the opposite sides of the regular teeth. This 65 million year old treasure was found on a private ranch in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana and is displayed in a 5.5 x 4.5 inch Riker Mount. Estimate Value $1,500 - UP
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