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These great
looking specimens are a fair representation of how the mosasaurs jaw
bone and teeth looks. The bone and teeth have been placed in the
sandstone matrix and are, therefore, reconstructions of this animal.
Specimen
weighs about 2-1/2 pounds and measures about 6-1/2" X 4-3/4". The
fossil bone is about 5" long. The teeth are about 1-1/4" long.
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F1755 -
Mosasaurs Jaw Bone W/Teeth (Morocco).
The mosasaurs was a huge marine
reptile that lived during the dinosaurs time, but are not considered
dinosaurs. The mosasaurs lived during the cretaceous age, a period of
time expanding from about 65 million years ago back to about 130 million
years ago. The mosasaurs is considered the last of the great marine
reptiles.
It is believed, based on skeletal finds, that these giant
reptiles grew to a length of 40 to 45 feet in length. Mosasaurs preyed on
smaller individuals of other species, including ammonites, fish, turtles,
squid, birds, and even small mosasaurs.
The mosasaurs would have moved
through the water using its long,
massive tail, and fin-like flippers. Unlike the modern crocodiles,
the mosasaurs did not have claws on their flippers and their flippers
were more paddle-like in shape. The mosasaurs would have been air
breathing reptiles and would therefore have surfaced to breath as do
modern crocodiles and whales. The mosasaurs became extinct, along with
the dinosaurs at the end of the cretaceous age, about 65,000,000 years
ago.
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