Live Auction 9935Out of the Ordinary
THE TOOTH OF A TYRANNOSAURUS-REX
Lot 103

THE TOOTH OF A TYRANNOSAURUS-REX

MONTANA

Closed5 September 2013

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GBP 9,375

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THE TOOTH OF A TYRANNOSAURUS-REX
MONTANA
From the Maastrichtian, late Cretaceous (72-66 Mya) the tooth of a Tyrannosaurus rex, on stand
3½in. (9cm.) long

Excavated with permision from private land.

Specialist note

The most famous and iconic of all dinosaur species, the T-rex was first described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1905 from a skeleton found in 1902 from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana. Standing over 13ft tall and 40ft long, the T-rex was the top predator of the late Cretaceous, and amongst the last dinosaurs to walk the earth before their mass extinction.