1.82" Tyrannosaurus rex (T-Rex) Tooth Tip - South Dakota

This is a 1.82" long tip of a large Tyrannosaurus rex tooth. It was collected from Tooth Draw Quarry in Butte County, South Dakota. The enamel on is pretty worn, but even partial teeth of this size are hard to find. Comes with a riker mount display case.

This tooth was found at a private ranch in Butte County, South Dakota in the summer of 2014. It comes from a quarry known as the "Tooth Draw Quarry" that has produced many high quality dinosaur teeth over the past several decades. In the Late Cretaceous some 65 million years ago, this quarry was located in a sub-tropical floodplain that would have been similar to modern day coastal Louisiana. It consists of 2 meters of alternating sandstone and gravel, representing a river channel lag deposit. It contains many isolated dinosaur teeth including T-Rex, Nanotyrannus, Raptors and Triceratops, but teeth of this high quality are rare finds.

The last two photos show the collecting location.