DT5-293 - RARE 5 INCH SPINOSAURUS FOSSIL TOOTH FROM A HUGE DINOSAUR

Product Description

ID

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus

FOUND

Kem Kem Beds - 
 (NW Sahara Desert), Morocco

AGE

CRETACEOUS:
  112 - 97 million years ago

SIZE

5" long

CONDITION

REPAIR WITH SMALL PORTION 
OF TIP BEING A COMPOSITE
TO RESTORE WHAT WAS
BROKEN.  TIP DOES NOT ADD
TO THE LENGTH OF WHAT WOULD
HAVE BEEN ORIGINAL.  

NOTE

SUPER RARE, MONSTER TOOTH
5 INCHES LONG FROM A 
MAXIMUM SIZE SPINOSAURUS!

INCLUDES DISPLAY BOX

Comes with a certificate of
authenticity / information sheet

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This tooth comes from a full-grown adult Spinosaurus dinosaur.  At 5 inches in length, it is of a size you will seldom see today in a genuine single tooth.  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 Spinosaurus teeth we have had in our inventory in over a decade.  This tooth has several fractures that have been repaired and a tiny portion of the sharp tip is a restoration from another tooth. This does not make the tooth a length is normally would not have been, it only restores the part destroyed in the digging.  This is not a perfect tooth but it is huge, with a good portion of root and originally a 5 inch tooth before the replacement of the tip.  

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!