Lot 30
Lot 30
THE TOOTH OF A TYRANNOSAURUS-REX

SOUTH DAKOTA

Price Realised GBP 21,250
Estimate
GBP 3,000 - GBP 5,000
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THE TOOTH OF A TYRANNOSAURUS-REX

SOUTH DAKOTA

Price Realised GBP 21,250
Price Realised GBP 21,250
Details
From the Hell Creek Formation, Harding County, Maastrichtian, late Cretaceous (72-66 million years ago) the well preserved 2½-inch tooth of a Tyrannosaurus rex.
2½ x 1 x 1in. (6.3 x 2.9 x 2.3cm.)


Special notice
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
Brought to you by
James Hyslop
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Lot Essay

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.
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