Marine Reptile · Tooth in Jaw Fragment
Mosasaur Tooth on Bone
A mosasaur tooth still fused to a fragment of its own alveolar bone, the porous, honeycombed texture of the jaw clearly preserved around the base of the root beneath the smooth enamel crown — a rarer find than a loose tooth, since it records exactly how the tooth sat in the living animal's jaw.
Interesting fact
Mosasaurs, like sharks, replaced their teeth continuously throughout life, with new teeth developing in sockets beneath the old ones and pushing them out — so a single animal could shed and regrow many thousands of teeth over its lifetime, which is part of why isolated mosasaur teeth turn up far more often than their skeletons.
Region of Origin
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