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

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.

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.

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 long, slim profile with a gradual taper and a clean, pointed tip. The crown is dark brown to nearly black, while the upper portion shifts into lighter tan and sandy brown tones where the root area is exposed. The tooth has a noticeable but gentle curve, which gives it a strong side profile for display.

The enamel-bearing portion remains well defined and smooth compared with the rougher, weathered root section. The base is broken naturally, and there are visible surface cracks, patches of matrix, and areas of color change that make the fossilization easy to see. This specimen looks less bulky than some Moroccan Spinosaurus teeth, which gives it a sharper, more streamlined appearance while still keeping good length and an intact point.

The shape reads clearly as a Spinosaurus-style tooth: narrow, conical, and built more for gripping than slicing. The preserved point, dark crown, and natural broken base give it an authentic field-found look that suits display.

Quantity: 1pc

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