Lot 329
Dinosaur Tail Vertebrae With Bite Marks. This large 7.5 x 8 inch Duckbill dinosaur (probably Edmontosaurus) tail vertebrae is nearly complete but what makes it very special are four tooth marks that were made by a massive meat eating dinosaur probably T-Rex or one of the other few really large tyrannosaurs like Daspletosaurus or Albertosaurus that were present in Garfield County, Montana 67 million years ago when this fossil was buried in a river basin. Only a few tyrannosaurs had enough jaw strength and strong enough teeth to bite through solid bone. The tails of hadrosaur dinosaurs were massive with a lot of muscle that would certainly made a good meal for a tyrannosaur dinosaur. The large tyrannosaurs like T-Rex just bit into and swallowed both meat and some bone when they fed. There is no way of determining if this Duckbill dinosaur was actually killed or just scavenged by the tyrannosaur but this fossil bone does give some indication of the power of the jaws of the large predatory tyannosaurs.
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Estimated Value $400 - 600.
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