Dinosaur Bones Mosasaur Tooth
This is a Mosasaur tooth. This bone comes with a photo and description card. This fossil is from Morocco, North Africa
Mosasaurs are an extinct group of marine reptiles, and depending on the
particular species, varied from about 10 feet (3 meters) in length, up
to a maximum of 57 feet (17.5 meters). These reptiles lived during the
latter part of the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic Era and spent their
entire lives at sea. Mosasaurs were carnivores eating fish, sea
urchins, turtles, and shellfish. Although they lived at the same time as
many of the dinosaurs, and like the dinosaurs became extinct during the
Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, Mosasaurs were not dinosaurs, but
lepidosaurs (the same taxonomic group which includes lizards, snakes and
sphenodonts such as the tuatara).
