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Product Description
ITEM #
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DT5-144
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ID
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Spinosaurus aegyptiacus
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FOUND
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Kem Kem Beds (Northwest Sahara Desert), Morocco
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AGE
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CRETACEOUS: 112 - 97 million years ago
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SIZE
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4" long
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CONDITION
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SINGLE HAIRLINE FRACTURE NEAR TIP, NO RESTORATION
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NOTE
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SUPER RARE, EXCEPTIONAL AND ENORMOUS TOOTH
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INCLUDES DISPLAY BOX Actual Item - One Only
Comes with a certificate of authenticity / information sheet |
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Today, finding a fine quality 4 inch Spinosaurus dinosaur tooth is extremely difficult. Even in the "golden years" of collecting, we would always return from our trips with a few 4 inch and even 5 inch teeth of beautiful quality. Not so today. The deposits now have been so heavily worked and destroyed by decades of destructive methods that even a choice grade 3 inch tooth is a prize! This mammoth-sized dinosaur tooth is spectacular in both its enormous size and its supreme condition, which is highly uncommon for large teeth like this. It measures a full 4 inches in length and shows very little root meaning this is a massive tooth and nearly all crown. The tip is ESPECIALLY RARE to be this sharp for such a large dinosaur tooth since a Spinosaurus this size would have fed frequently and violently, often damaging or wearing the tips of their massive teeth.
It has been so many years that we have had a tooth this large and this nice with such a sharp tip. There is one single hairline fracture near the tip but the tooth is otherwise, INTACT. NO RESTORATION OR FABRICATION. An absolute rarity in what is found today!!!!!!!!
This tooth comes from a full-grown adult Spinosaurus dinosaur. With such a large creature, it is nearly impossible to find teeth in this size range that are not severely damaged and severely worn considering the amount of food a large dinosaur would have had to consume to sustain such massive body mass. This is one of the largest and nicest Spinosaurus teeth we have had in our inventory in over a decade. Any specimen near or over 4 inches in fine condition WITHOUT ALTERATION OR RESTORATION as this beauty is, always carries a hefty price tag and the buyer demand for dinosaur teeth this size in fine quality is ever-increasing. Teeth of this size and in such pristine condition are in extreme demand and always will be. We strongly recommend this amazing example to any collector because prizes like these are no longer being found like they once were and steady appreciation of prices in the market are already reflecting that.
WARNING: A common trick to fake large dinosaur teeth in the market is to attach either a bunch of sand mixed with glue on the end of the tooth's root to exaggerate the length or even worse, fabricate a giant impressive tooth by combining and blending multiple teeth sections together to appear as one massive tooth or to fabricate the bottom portion of the tooth and extend, by a much as DOUBLE OR MORE, the original length of the tooth before work started. The workmanship of a few notorious United States-based fakers is of the finest workmanship and VERY convincing in appearance. There have been European fakers also known to create and sell these large teeth. Don't be fooled when you are shopping for large dinosaur teeth of ANY SPECIES, not just Spinosaurus. These are common practices of both unscrupulous and uninformed dealers. We see these "doctored" large dinosaur teeth offered quite frequently and numerous junk, worthless teeth that have been converted and heavily modified are selling for ridiculously high prices, mostly at shows and on the internet. Ebay is one of the worst places for this where fraud runs rampant and unchecked in the entire rare collectibles field but some fossil show dealers and internet sites have been pawning these "creations" off for years now, as well!
