Tenontosaurus Dinosaur Tooth Replica
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Tenontosaurus had a long, flexible neck. The front of its mouth had no teeth; it had a horny beak for biting off plants. Rows of strong, tightly fitted teeth ground up even tough plants.
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Description
Tenontosaurus Dinosaur Tooth replica measures 2 inches. Tenontosaurus Dinosaur Tooth is museum quality polyurethane resin cast. Made in USA.
Tenontosaurus or Tenontosaurus tilletti meaning sinew lizard is a genus of medium to large sized ornithopod dinosaur. The genus is known from the late Aptian to Albian ages of the middle Cretaceous period sediments of western North America, dating between 115 and 108 million years ago.
The genus contains two species, Tenontosaurus tilletti (described by John Ostrom in 1970) and Tenontosaurus dossi (described by Winkler, Murry, and Jacobs in 1997). Many specimens of T. tilletti have been collected from several geological formations throughout western North America. T. dossi is known from only a handful of specimens collected from the Twin Mountains Formation of Parker County, Texas.
It was about 6.5 to 8 meters (21 to 26 ft.) long and 3 meters (10 ft.) high in a bipedal stance, with a mass of somewhere between 1 to 2 tones (1 to 2 short tons). It had an unusually long, broad tail, which like its back was stiffened with a network of bony tendons.
Tenontosaurus had a long, flexible neck. The front of its mouth had no teeth; it had a horny beak for biting off plants. Rows of strong, tightly fitted teeth ground up even tough plants.
The first Tenontosaurus fossil was found in Big Horn County, Montana by an American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) expedition in 1903. Subsequent digs in the same area during the 1930s unearthed 18 more specimens, and four specimens were found during the 1940s.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Suborder: †Ornithopoda
Clade: †Iguanodontia
Genus: †Tenontosaurus
Conservation Status: Extinct
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| Weight | 1.5 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 2 in |
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