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 long, tapering shape with a dark brown crown and a lighter, rougher root section still carrying natural matrix. The point remains intact, and the tooth has a gentle curve that gives it a strong side profile. The surface shows a mix of smoother enamel and more weathered fossil texture, with reddish brown, tan, and darker brown tones across the piece.

What makes this specimen stand out is the contrast between the preserved crown and the more rugged base. The enamel-bearing portion narrows cleanly to the tip, while the root end is broader, broken naturally, and packed with sandy fossil material. It has the conical profile associated with Spinosaurus teeth, which were built more for gripping prey than slicing. This piece has a good display look because the tip is still sharp and the overall form reads clearly from multiple angles.

This is a real Spinosaurus tooth with clear age and an unmistakably fossil surface.

Quantity: 1pc

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