07830 - Well Preserved 0.72 Inch Globidens phosphaticus (Mosasaur) Tooth on Matrix Cretaceous Coloborhynchus Asteropyge

Asteropyge

Specimen without preparation or cleaning

It has been carefully prepared during a long laboratory process

Usually the two edges have equally developed serrations

Departement de Géologie

07830 - Well Preserved 0.72 Inch Globidens phosphaticus (Mosasaur) Tooth on Matrix Cretaceous Coloborhynchus AsteropygeNice unbroken specimen preserved in its natural phosphatic matrix. In the international market is very common to find Mosasaurus rests coming from the phosphate quarries of the Upper Cretaceous of the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Morocco). This quarries have been exploited since the beginning of the past century. Many sellers that sell this fossils do not make a good precise taxonomic identification work. In these sites there are numerous different species of