Large 2.39" Mosasaurus Tooth

Here's a beautifully preserved and quite large tooth of one of the most fearsome predators to ever roam earth's oceans, the Mosasaurus. This is a large tooth has been completely removed from the rock. These teeth are found in the Oulad Abdoun Basin of Morocco during phosphate mining operations and are Upper Cretaceous in age. The very top of the tooth has a repaired crack.

This one is of a rarer species of Mosasaurs found in the phosphate deposits Mosasaurus beaugei.