1.32" Tyrannosaur Premax Tooth - Alberta (Disposition #000028-29)

Tyrannosaur Premax Tooth - Alberta (Disposition #-) #97375

First, a note on the legality of this fossil. Alberta has very strict laws pertaining to fossil collection. Fossils may not be removed from the province of Alberta without permission from the government. To gain ownership of a fossil, you must be issued a Disposition Certificate from Alberta's Royal Tyrrell Museum. Only a few fossil types are currently eligible for disposition: mostly ammonites, petrified wood, leaves and fossil oysters.

This specimen is part of a collection of dinosaur material that was collected by a single individual (Steve Walchina) decades ago prior to the current law. Because it was collected before the law went into effect, the collection was "grandfathered" in. The collection was reviewed by the Royal Tyrrell Museum and a disposition certificate issued for portions of it that were not considered scientifically significant. This moved the fossils into private ownership and allowed them to be removed from the province. The disposition certificate (#000028-29) is on file with the Royal Tyrrell Museum. This makes the small amount of Alberta dinosaur fossils we recently acquired from this collection some of the only legal Alberta dinosaur material on the market.

This is a premaxillary tooth of an unidentified species of Tyrannosaur dinosaur from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada. The tooth is only partial, with much of the proximal portion of the tooth having broke free and likely weathered away. The serrations are slightly worn, however they're still observable. Comes with an acrylic bubble display case.

These oddly shaped teeth with two ridges located on the lingual side where originally described as Aublysodon more than a century ago based off of isolated teeth and jaw fragments. More recent discoveries of more complete Tyrannosaur skeletons have led to the discovery that these teeth are actually the premaxillary teeth from juveniles of other Tyrannosaur species.