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Camarasaurus(tooth)
Age: Jurassic
Discovered: Utah U.S.
Note: Camarasaurus was a
very heavily built member of the long-necked sauropod family of
Jurassic dinosaurs. It is very well known by scientists and
recently a family of these large creatures was discovered in the
Western U.S. Camarasaurus is also a part of one of
paleontology's big mistakes when its head was put on the body of
Apatasaurus and called Brontosaurus. Compared to some of the
other sauropods, Camarasaurus had a relatively short neck and
tail. It also had a large head compared to other sauropods, but
the head was almost hollow. The skull openings for the nose and
eyes were very large. This is the most common North American
sauropod found, with more than ten fairly complete skeletons
unearthed to date. At least four species have been identified
within this genus. Camarasaurus gets its name from the hollow
spaces in its neck vertebrae. These would have made the neck
lighter and easier for the dinosaur to lift and move about. This
dinosaur also had the largest teeth among sauropods.
Size: 4 1/4in/ 10.7cm
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Diprotodon(Tooth)
Age: Pleistocene
Discovered: Africa
Size: 5.25 in / 13.5 cm / 4 oz.
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Note: Giant relative of the wombat from Pleistocene Australia.
Diprotodon australis was the largest marsupial to ever live. It
was once widespread and relatively common over much of
Australia. Its name ‘Diprotodon’ literally means “two forward
teeth”, referring to the paired tusk-like incisors which it may
have used to root out small shrubs and bite through tough
vegetation. The molar teeth were as large as a human fist, and
were designed for slicing and crushing thick leaves and
branches. A large Diprotodon weighed 1.5 - 2.5 tonnes, and in
spite of its bulk could move almost as fast as a camel on its
relatively long legs and wombat-like feet. Fossilised track-ways
of this enormous beast have been found in the dry beds of Lake
Callabonna in northern South Australia, where hundreds of entire
skeletons of Diprotodon have been found. Diprotodon is
comparatively rare in the fossil deposits at Naracoorte. This
may be related to the size of the cave entrances, which were
mostly too small for this giant to fall into.
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Edmontosaurus Hadrosaur Duckbill
Age: Late Cretaceous
Note: Edmontosaurus was
possibly the largest of the duck-billed hadrosaurs. It was a
little bigger than a T. rex and was probably a food source for
the large meat-eater. It walked on all four legs much of the
time, but it could also stand easily on its hind legs, as they
were much larger than its front legs. Edmontosaurus had on
average over 500 teeth and some had over 1,000! These were all
jammed together in what is called a dental battery. This
dinosaur could really chew up the tough plants on which it fed.
Edmontosaurus was originally described as Anatosaurus; for many
years the species annectens was attributed to the genus
Anatosaurus. Now both Anatosaurus and Claosaurus are known as
Edmontosaurus. Hadrosaurs were among the most common herbivores
of the late Cretaceous. Like other hadrosaurs, it had a beak
that was covered with a horny sheath. Excellent mummified
specimens of these dinosaurs have been found, adding a great
deal to the knowledge of dinosaur skin and musculature. When
first discovered, many researchers thought these dinosaurs would
have lived in the water due to the shape of their heads and the
fact that one mummified specimen seemed to have webbing on its
front feet. Later research has shown, however, that these
creatures lived primarily on coastal plains, floodplains and
river deltas. Their dental structure also supports a more
terrestrial lifestyle, as was perfectly suited for plants that
were found in forests near water, and not those that were found
in the water. Another interesting Edmontosaurus feature is that
the skin seemed to consist, at least partly, of horny plates -
good defense against glancing bites and blows from predators.
Discovered: Dakota
Eryops(tooth)
Age: Lower Permian
Discovered: Wichita Basin, Texas
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Note: Eryops
was a common, primitive amphibian that lived in swamps during
the Permian period. This meat-eater had a stout body with very
wide ribs, a strong spine, four short, strong legs, a short
tail, and a wide, elongated skull with many sharp teeth in
strong jaws. Its teeth had enamel with a folded pattern. Eryops
was about 5 feet (1.5 m) long, one of the largest land animals
of its time. Eryops may have been slow moving on land, but was
perhaps faster in the water. Some scientists have suggested that
Eryops may not have been able to run. Eryops was a swamp
dweller. Like all amphibians, Eryops had to live near the water
since amphibian eggs have no shells and must be laid in the
water (or in very damp areas) or they will dry out and die.
Also, it lost its gills as an adult.
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Giganotosaurus(tooth)
Age: Cretaceous
Discovered: Argentina
Size: 7in/ 19cm
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Note: Giganotosaurus was one big
meat-eater! It may have been the biggest one of all, even
bigger than T. rex. It lived in South America at a time when
there were still large sauropods for it to eat. It had a very
strong body and a mouth full of teeth like steak knives. Just
its head alone was almost 6 feet (2 m) long! A recent discovery
in Argentina suggests that Giganotosaurus may have been as
large as 46 feet (15 m). What is interesting is that there is
another dinosaur found in North Africa, called
Carcharodontosaurus that is almost identical - in fact, it may
be the same genus. Since South America and Africa were still
connected back then, it is possible they are very close
relations. Like T. rex, this dinosaur hunted in warm and swampy
areas. Some of the sauropods of that time had armor on their
backs in order to protect them from an attack from above and
that kind of attack could only have come from a predator as
large as Giganotosaurus.
Platygonus(Canine)
Age: Pleistocene
Discovered: Florida
Description:
Like their cousins the Old World pigs, New World pigs, or
peccaries, are short, stout animals with coarse, bristly hair
and large heads. They have long snouts that sport a hard,
disk-shaped nose pad used for rooting around for tubers, and in
the case of peccaries, for peeling spiny cacti, a preferred
food.Peccaries, (or 'pecari', a Brazilian Tupi word for 'an
animal which makes many paths through the woods'), also known as
tayassuids ('gnawers of roots'), are endemic to the Americas,
their known fossil record extends back approximately 37 million
years in North American late Eocene deposits. The skeleton shown
here is Platygonus cumberlandensis Gidley, 1920, a 1
million-year-old Pleistocene fossil peccary. This species is
regarded as the largest known peccary ever discovered and this
specimen is the only one mounted of its kind. The animal stood
almost 3 feet tall and probably weighed about 130 pounds when it
was alive.
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Platybelodon Grangeri
Age: Miocene
Discovered:
Platybelodon was 20 ft (6 m) long, 9 ft (2.8 m) tall at the
shoulder and weighed about 4.5 tons (4 tonnes). Platybelodon was
an herbivore (plant-eater) that ate leaves. Flat cheek teeth
ground up the leaves. This elephant-like browser had a
shovel-shaped, scoop-like lower jaw (mandible). This huge mouth
had sharp teeth at the front edge; these teeth were likely used
for cutting leaves to eat. It also had 2 small, forward and
downward-pointing tusks toward the front of the upper jaw,
probably used for defense against predators. Platybelodon lived
in wet parts of prairies and ate soft plants (including water
plants). This prehistoric elephant lived during the middle to
late Miocene (roughly 25 million years ago).
Spinosaurus(tooth)
Age: Cretaceous
Discovered: Morocco
Description: The star of
"Jurassic Park III," the Spinosaurus is one of the strangest of
the large meat-eaters. What makes it so different is the large
sail on its back, formed by spines that grew as tall as six
feet. No one knows exactly why it had these on its back, but it
is possible that they helped to regulate body temperature, or
maybe they were used as a display during courtship. The other
really interesting thing about this huge dinosaur was its diet
- it seems to be designed to eat mostly fish! The teeth of
Spinosaurus are designed differently from any of the large
carnivores. They are long and conical-shaped, the kind found on
reptiles that eat mostly fish. How could something this large
be so specially designed to eat mostly fish? It probably lived
along the shore where fairly large fish were abundant. Of
course, it could also have eaten just about anything else it
could catch. What is interesting is that there were two other
dinosaurs living at the same time and in the same vicinity as
Spinosaurus who also had large sails on their backs. At one
time, there was an almost complete specimen on display in a
museum in Germany. However, it was completely destroyed and
lost forever during the bombing of Germany in WWII.
Size: 3 1/2in/ 8.9cm
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Spinosaurus(tooth
A)
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Note: Ovular teeth from the semi-aquatic areas of Cretaceous North Africa
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Spinosaurus(tooth B)
Size: 8.5 cm
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Note: Ovular teeth from the semi-aquatic areas of Cretaceous North Africa
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Spinosaurus(tooth
C)
Size: 3 in / 7.2 cm
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Note: Ovular teeth from the semi-aquatic areas of Cretaceous North Africa
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Spinosaurus(tooth
E)
Size: 0.5 in / 11 cm / 4.5 in cm
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Note: Ovular teeth from the semi-aquatic areas of Cretaceous North Africa
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Spinosaurus(tooth
F)
Size: 6 in / 15.3 cm
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Note: Ovular teeth from the semi-aquatic areas of Cretaceous North Africa
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Triceratops(Triceratops Hoirridus)
Age: Cretaceous
Discovered: South Dakota U.S.
Size: 1.4 in / 3.5 cm
Note: One of
the top three on everyone's favorite dinosaur list, Triceratops
is a very common dinosaur which lived at the very end of the
Age of Dinosaurs. It had a huge frilled head with horns over
each eye that could reach over 4 feet long. Triceratops had a
third, smaller horn on its nose. These would be fearsome
weapons against a predator. Triceratops is one of the most
common dinosaur fossils found. More than 50 skulls have been
found. Within the genus, at least 7 species have been
identified. The ceratopsian family is one of the most
successful and varied of the Late Cretaceous. Triceratops is
the largest member of this family, reaching the size of a
school bus. Triceratops was a herd animal; it is believed that
large groups roamed North America. Their large, horny beaks and
long rows of teeth were well designed for chewing the tough,
low growing plants of the Late Cretaceous. It was likely the
main predator of these animals was T. rex. A number of
skeletons show bite and chew marks that match the teeth of T.
rex. Horns and frills seemed to vary among individuals within
the species. Some frills were very broad, others narrow. The
nasal horn shows the most variance among individual specimens,
no two being the same. The material that covered its horns in
life would have added significantly to the length of the
fossilized bone.
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T-Rex w/root(Highest Quality Tooth!)
Age: Upper Cretaceous
Discovered: South Dakota U.S.
Description: Probably the
most famous of all dinosaurs, T. rex was probably the fiercest
meat eater that ever lived. At more than 40 feet tall, it was
huge and had the most powerful head of any dinosaur. It also
had the biggest teeth of any dinosaur - teeth that were not
only sharp and cutting edged, but also thick and strong,
capable of crushing bones. After many millions of years of
evolution, nature arrived at T. rex, an almost perfect killing
machine. It was capable of running at great speed to catch
other dinosaurs (or anything it wanted to eat). It had large
feet to help it run quickly through the swampy environment in
which it lived, maybe as fast as 35 mph. Although it had very
short arms, they were very strong. But it didn't need its arms
to be an effective and efficient killer. It had enormous
strength in its jaws; it could bite right through the frill of
a Triceratops or into the back of a hadrosaur. In fact, the
only thing that a T. rex had to fear was another T. rex. Most
of the scars and wounds found on fossil bones of these great
creatures seem to come from others of its kind. T. rex is very
well known, with more than 30 individual specimens having been
found. Less than half of these had any significant amount of
the fossil, but it still gives us a very good picture of these
creatures.
Size: 11 in / 28 cm
Cost: $200
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Note: This is a
fantastic specimen that looks and feels like
a real tooth. Perfect serrations. Not a toy!
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T-Rex (Tooth)
Size: 2.2 in / 5.7 cm
Cost: $75
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Note: Mini Tyranosaurus Rex. Theropoda.
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T-Rex (Pre-Maxillary)
Size: 2.0 in / 5 cm
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T-Rex (Small
tooth)
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Note: Small tooth from the deadly carnosaur of the Montana Cretaceous Hell Creek
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T-Rex (Medium Tooth)
Size: 2.5 in / 6.3 cm
Cost: $75
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T-Rex (Baby tooth)
\Size: 0.4 in / 1 cm
Cost: $75
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Note: Tiniest denture from a hatchling T-Rex
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T-Rex (Baby tooth)
Size: 0.7 in / 1.9 cm
Cost: $75
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Note: Tinier denture from a hatchling T-Rex
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T-Rex (Tooth)
Size: 3.5 in / 9 cm
Cost: $75
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