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FOSSILISED TYRANNOSAURUS REX TOOTH
Circa 67 million years ago
H. 12.5 cm x W. 4.2 cm
PROVENANCE
Found in Butte County, South Dakota, USA, Summer 2021.
An extremely large and extraordinarily well preserved tooth of one of the most iconic prehistoric predators - the Tyrannosaurus Rex - with a remarkable video capturing the moment of its discovery.
Found in Butte County, South Dakota, this fossil comes from the Hell Creek ecosystem, where the first T. rex fossils were unearthed in 1902 by Barnum Brown, a palaeontologist with the American Museum of Natural History. On 25 July 1902, in sheer awe of his discovery, Brown wrote, ‘Quarry No. 1 contains the femur, pubes, humerus, three vertebrae and two undetermined bones of a large Carnivorous Dinosaur… I have never seen anything like it from the Cretaceous.’ The genus was first classified following its complete excavation in 1905. In that year, Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, stated: ‘I propose to make this animal the type of a new genus, Tyrannosaurus, in reference to its size, which greatly exceeds that of any carnivorous land animal hitherto described…’
Osborn could not help celebrating his museum’s spectacular acquisition. He further stated that ‘This animal is in fact the ne plus ultra of the evolution of the large carnivorous dinosaurs: in brief it is entitled to the royal and high sounding group name which I have applied to it...’ This name - deriving from the Greek and Latin for ‘tyrant lizard king’ - was by no means undeserved. At its largest, the Tyrannosaurus rex reached heights of 12 metres in length and weighed between 5,000-7,000 kilograms. Dubbed as the ‘largest flesh-eater that ever lived’ by Brown in 1915, the T. rex jaw, lined with 60 saw-edged teeth, would have had spectacular strength, capable of delivering up to 6 tonnes of pressure, and being able
to crush bone easily.
The present specimen with its perfectly preserved serrated edge, and spider web-like surface, is an iconic symbol of one of Earth’s greatest prehistoric predators.
- Dimensions:Height: 4.93 in (12.5 cm)Diameter: 3.94 in (10 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:Circa 67 million years ago
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1052244470672
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