(1) Genuine, authentic & old fossil Mosasaur tooth. It is Late Cretaceous in age & from the phosphate deposits near Khourigba, Morocco.Housed is a handsome "Floating Display" and bundled with a Free Stand & COA as shown. Each unusually large tooth randomly averages 1" to 1 1/2" in length with the average tooth about 1 1/4" in length. Nearly all of the teeth from this Lot has some typical defects such as cracks,(some may be repaired) or chipped tips, but as you see this is a "A" grade tooth sure to attract attention. These teeth are collected as a byproduct of the massive phosphate mining operations near Khourigba. The locals collected the teeth and other fossils saving them from certain destruction by rock crusher. These locals also my perform the small repairs as required. There are as many as 10 different species of Mosasaurs in these deposits, and determining the species of individual teeth is often difficult but very possible with research. Mosasaurs are a family of enormous, marine reptiles that truly dominated the seas 90 million years ago. They ruled during the last 20-25 million years of the Cretaceous period. With the extinction of the ichthyosaurs and decline of plesiosaurs, mosasaurs diversified to become prolific, apex predators in nearly every habitat of the oceanic world. Larger mosasaurs were the great leviathans of their time, extending 10–15 m, or 33–49 ft long. Hainosaurus holds the record for longest mosasaur, at a seemingly impossible, 57 ft. The smaller genera were still an impressive, 10–20 ft long. Mosasaurs probably evolved from semi-aquatic, scaled reptiles which were more similar in appearance to modern-day monitor lizards. They had double-hinged jaws and flexible skulls (much like that of a snake), which enabled them to gulp down their prey almost whole.