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Product Description
This very rare fully rooted lateral fossil tooth from a Hamadasuchus sp. crocodylomorph reptile dating back to the days of the dinosaurs. It was found in the famous North Sahara Desert Kem Kem Red Beds of Morocco, and dates to the Cenomian of the Cretaceous, 100 million years ago. While we have seen a few of these very rare teeth over the past decades, this is the FIRST AND BEST specimen we have encountered where the root is 100% intact and perfect, and a fully unworn, undamaged crown is also present. This tooth is impossible to improve on!. A highly sought after fossil and the only one of its kind we have to offer!
HISTORY
Hamadasuchus is an extinct genus of sebecian crocodylomorph. Fossils have been found from the Kem Kem Formation outcropping in southeastern Morocco. These beds date back to the Albian and Cenomanian stages of the Late Cretaceous. It was first assigned to the family Trematochampsidae.
Trematochampsids are deep-snouted and have a ziphodont tooth structure.[2] The dentition differs from most other crocodilians in that the teeth are recurved, serrated, and lateromedially compressed. This may be an adaptation to a terrestrial or at least semiterrestrial lifestyle as such teeth would be better suited for cutting and tearing into prey as opposed to capturing them and holding them underwater. Despite this, most trematochampsids are presumed to have been aquatic.
Diagnostic features of the Hamadasuchus genus include its lateromedially compressed and serrated teeth. It was deep-snouted and had a slightly heterodont dentition with three distinct tooth morphologies present from sections of the lower jaw.
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