Seventy million years ago, a hulking T. rex nicknamed Monty chomped into a fresh carcass. As the giant meat-eater's teeth ripped flesh from bone, this large tooth may have broken loose and fell to the ground and over time became fossilized. The pressure of the overburden burying the tooth crushed the root of the tooth making it appear extra wide.
T. rex commonly lost teeth like this one in a process we call "shedding." These teeth are usually found by scientists apart from skeleton, often near a plant eating dinosaur carcass that served as a feast for the giant Cretaceous predator.
Specs: Tyrannosaurus rex.
Late Cretaceous (70 million years ago). North America.
resin
8 inches long
Item 3021
Category: Replicas
Type: Teeth
Phylum: Vertebrates
Class: Dinosaurs
MORE PHOTOS:
Now Over 1,000 Items!
PrehistoricStore.com offers the largest selection of replica fossils and other fossil-related products anywhere in the world!
Download a Full Catalog (3MB PDF)
OVER 260 PAGES OF REPLICAS AND MORE!