.48" Tiny Megalosaurid (Marshosaurus) Tooth - Colorado

This is a tiny, serrated, .48" long Megalosaurid (Marshosaurus?) tooth collected this past summer from the Morrison Formation. It comes from our partners private quarry East of Dinosaur, Colorado. It was left attached to the sandstone that it was found in. One crack repair near the tip. This almost certainly would have come from a juvenile/baby of the species.

There are two main characteristics that distinguish it from the much more frequently found Allosaurus teeth. First, the serrations on the front edge of the tooth extend less than half way down the length of the tooth. Secondly there is little to no spiraling of serrations seen on Allosaurus teeth. It's also fairly thin in cross-section.

There are three described Megalosaurs in the Morrison Formation; Marshosaurus, Stokesosaurus and Torvosaurus. The tooth is too small to be Torvosaurus and Marshosaurus is the more common of the remaining two.