Spinosaurus Tooth - Fossil Specimen

Locality: Kem Kem Beds, near Taouz, Errachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Sahara Desert, Morocco

Era: Mesozoic
Geological Age: Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian 100.5 to 93.9 mya

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus was named in 1915 by the German palaeontologist Ernst Stromer, from a partial skeleton that the collector Richard Markgraf found in 1912 in the Bahariya Oasis of western Egypt. That skeleton was the only indisputable specimen of the species. It was destroyed on the night of 24–25 April 1944, when a bombing raid on Munich hit the museum that housed it, and only Stromer's notes, drawings and photographs survived.

The Kem Kem beds form desert cliffs in the Moroccan Sahara. In the Cretaceous the area was part of a large river system, home to large sharks, coelacanths, lungfish and crocodile-like animals, along with giant flying reptiles and predatory dinosaurs.

Nearly a century later, Nizar Ibrahim and colleagues described a new partial Spinosaurus skeleton from the Kem Kem beds of southeastern Morocco, published in Science in September 2014. Comparing it with Stromer's surviving records, they concluded that Spinosaurus was at least partly aquatic, the first dinosaur known with such adaptations. Its nostrils sat far back on the skull, its hindlimbs were short, and its limb bones were solid, which would have helped with buoyancy control in water.

This one of a kind Spinosaurus tooth fossil specimen has a strong, elongated conical form with a dark brown to near-black tip fading into lighter brown and tan fossilized surface texture toward the base. The tooth shows natural wear, breakage, and weathering near the root end, while the crown still keeps its pointed profile and dense, solid look. It has a rugged surface with visible texture changes that give it a very raw, unearthed appearance rather than an overly cleaned or polished one.

The piece has the look collectors usually want in a real Moroccan dinosaur tooth: solid size, obvious age, and enough natural preservation to clearly read it as a predatory theropod tooth. Spinosaurus teeth are known for being more conical and less blade-like than many other carnivorous dinosaur teeth, which suited a lifestyle that likely involved gripping slippery prey such as fish. Moroccan examples are most commonly recovered from the Kem Kem fossil beds, a famous Cretaceous deposit that has produced crocodilians, giant fish, pterosaurs, and large predatory dinosaurs.

Many collectors are drawn to fossil teeth like this for what they represent more than anything else: endurance, primal strength, and a direct connection to deep time. It has the kind of presence people are usually looking for when they want a fossil that feels ancient, dramatic, and unmistakably real.

Quantity: 1pc

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