LARGEST DINOSAUR AGE JAW ON EBAY Fossil Tooth Mosasaur

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MONSTER Dinosaur Age TRIPLE Jaw Mosasaur Fossil 18 Tooth Mosasaurus +++ Biggest on Ebay and NO RESERVE "RARE" SUPERB Mosasaurus TRIPLE JAW with 18 Teeth in Matrix ++ + No Reserve MASSIVE 24 POUNDER! GIGANTIC Mosasaur TRIPLE Jaw Fossil from Morocco Last of the great marine reptiles AND NEVER A RESERVE - SELLS TO THE HIGH BIDDER Mosasaurs were the dominant predator in the oceans of the late Cretaceous and were certainly the marine equivalent of Tyrannosaurus rex . The finding of the first Mosasaur remains in the Netherlands about 1780 ( Mosasaurus hoffmanni ) predates the discovery of dinosaurs by more than fifty years, yet they have been frequently ignored in the media and text books on paleontology in favor of the more popular ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs. The mosasaurus anceps and mosasaurus beaugie were one of the success stories of the late Cretaceous period. The largest known mosasaur is Hainosaurus, which could reach 17 meters in length. Giant mosasaurs were the top predator in the sea and were widespread across the world. Much of their day would have been spent swimming slowly near the seabed looking for suitable prey to attack. Their diet consisted of slow moving animals like ammonites, birds and turtles but they would also tackle larger and swifter prey, such as sharks and plesiosaurs, when the opportunity arose. As the mosasaurs were not fast swimmers, they would have stalked their prey using natural cover provided by seaweed and rocks. Only when the prey was within striking range would the mosasaur propel itself forward. Mosasaurs were meat-eaters with big, sharp teeth. The crowns of these teeth are over an inch long. Being caught in a mosasaur's jaws meant almost certain death. This particular Cretaceous Moroccan Mosasaur marine fossil's teeth and Triple Jaw bones are imbedded in a light brown matrix of phosphoric reinforced sandstone from the Sahara Desert in the Oulad Abdoun Basin near the Khouribga phosphate plateau region of Morocco, North Africa. The massive marine predator went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous about 65 million years ago along with the dinosaurs. This set of fossilized triple jaw bones fragments are 10 to 11" long with the 18 very large teeth measuring 1 1/2" to 1 3/4 " lengths. The sandstone matrix measurements are 17" x 11" x 3 1/2" with the specimen having a weight of 24 pounds! I am fortunate to have come upon a direct Moroccan source for these large fossil complexes, so check my future auctions for more examples of this formidable creature. "RARE" SUPERB Mosasaurus triple JAW with 18 Teeth in Matrix A+++ No Reserve Mosasaurs Tylosaurs (including Mosasaurus and Hainosaurus) were the largest mosasaurs. This subfamily of mosasaurs lived in the seas during the late Cretaceous period. Mosasaurs (pronounced MOES-ah-SAWR) were huge predatory marine lizards, up to 40 feet in length that inhabited the world's oceans during the Cretaceous. This skeleton is one of the mosasaurs called Plioplatecarpus that inhabited the Pierre Sea about 75 million years ago. It was discovered in 1995 by Mike Hanson and Dennis Halvorson on Orville and Beverly Tranby's farm in the Sheyenne River Valley near Cooperstown, in Griggs County, ND. Mosasaur were Reptiles, but not dinosaurs. They are: Vertebrates, Tetrapods of the Diapsids of the Order Squamata of the Family Mosasauridae and Subfamily Mosasaurinae (long-bodied mosasaurs) of the Genus Mosasaurus MOSASAURUS ASSOCIATED JAW SET IN MATRIX - Khouribga, Morocco LATE CRETACEOUS PERIOD: 96 - 66 million years ago Mosasaurus ancepts, the largest identified mosasaur species from the Oulad Abdoun Basin of Morocco and one of five species known in the Maastrichtian phosphates of the Ganntour Basin of the phosphate mining district of Morocco. Back in the second half of the 1700's, geologists made a remarkable discovery near the southernmost city of the Netherlands. A huge skull was unearthed belonging to a gigantic reptile which had lived 65 million years... read more

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