Super Crocodile Tooth Fossil Replica
$16.00
Crocodilian jaws are designed for grabbing and holding prey. The teeth are conical and designed to penetrate and hold, rather than cut and chew.
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Description
Super Crocodile Tooth Fossil Replica measures 6.1 inches. Super Crocodile Tooth Fossil is museum-quality polyurethane resin cast. Made in USA.
Super Crocodile or Sarcosuchus meaning flesh crocodile is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of living crocodylians that lived during the Early Cretaceous, from the late Hauterivian to the early Albian, 133 to 112 million years ago of what is now Africa and South America.
Super Crocodile or Sarcosuchus was one of the largest crocodile-line reptiles, reaching an average estimate of 9 m (30 ft) and 3.5 metric tons (3.9 short tons), but estimated to grow up to 9.5 m (31 ft.) in body length and weigh up to 4.3 metric tons (4.7 short tons).
It is known from two species, S. imperator from the early Albian Elrhaz Formation of Niger and S. hartti from the Late Hauterivian of northeastern Brazil, other material is known from Morocco and Tunisia and possibly Libya and Mali.
The first remains of Super Crocodile or Sarcosuchus were discovered during several expeditions led by the French paleontologist Albert-Félix de Lapparent, spanning from 1946 to 1959, in the Sahara.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: †Tethysuchoidea
Genus: †Sarcosuchus Broin & Taquet, 1966
Type species: †Sarcosuchus imperator
Additional information
| Weight | 3.5 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 6.1 in |
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