Lot 905
T-Rex Pre-Maxilary 2.5 Inch Tooth. Virtually all T-Rex teeth found are shed teeth that broke off when the T-Rex was feeding on some other dinosaur. Usually these teeth are just fragments or are broken into many pieces, but this large 2.5 inch Pre-Maxilary light brown tooth is the exception. Only ¾ inch of the tip was found separated from the rest of the tooth and put back into place. Otherwise there is no restoration to this magnificent tooth. There is some wear on the enamel at the tip that occurred when the T-Rex was still alive and there are some light cracks in the enamel that are always present, but the enamel is of exceptional quality and the serrations are fairly sharp. This is a really large Pre-Maxilary tooth as the Pre-Maxilary teeth are smaller than the teeth further back in the jaw because Pre-Maxilary teeth are found in the front of the jaw and were used to strip meat from the bone. They are very distinctive in having two rows of serrations close together on the inner curve of the tooth versus having one row of serrations on the opposite sides of the regular teeth. This 65 million year old treasure was found on a private ranch in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana and is displayed in a 6X6 inch Riker Mount.
Estimated Value $4,000 - 5,500.
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