jasonlwjy Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 I am quite interested about large teeth. Below is the largest mosasaur teeth i have ever seen, with the incomplete crown height greater than 7 cm, the complete crown height may be over 8 cm. But i've heard somebody said that the tooth crown of largest mosasuar can reach 10 cm, is it true? Or can mosasaur tooth really grow that big? I'll appreciate a lot if you share your idea or pictures! What's more, when we compare teeth from different individual but from same section of the jaw bone, do larger teeth represent larger individual in mosasaurs? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonlwjy Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 the following is the largest prognathodon tooth i've ever seen, it's tooth crown not counting the root has a height around 6 cm, not very long but the overall shape is really robust, I'll also appreciate a lot if you share your collections or pictures of very large prognathodon teeth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Mosasaur tooth-crowns could certainly reach well over 8cm in height - below is a thread that discusses one such monster. Whether they could reach up to 10cm tall I don't know, though. But it seems likely that mosasaurs kept growing throughout their entire lives, meaning their teeth would grow with them (unfortunately, I don't have a reference for this). Thence, it's not an impossibility, but it would be a rarity to find one these teeth (the biggest I've heard of reach just over 8cm) - after all, the bigger the predator, the fewer of them there are around. That having been said, Moroccan teeth are generally larger than any European or American teeth I've seen, thus something in their palaeogeographical environment allowed them to reach bigger sizes than elsewhere, probably a greater abundance of food. 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMert Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 2 big teeth from Volgograd region, over 7 cm 1 1 My sites & reports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 10 minutes ago, RuMert said: 2 big teeth from Volgograd region, over 7 cm Wow, simply stunning! Those are truly beautiful specimens, and some of the largest I've seen outside of Morocco! 1 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanotyrannus35 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 I found this one on an online sellers website. Not including the matrix it is 3.15 inches or 8.01 cm Enthusiastic Fossil Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyrannosaurusRex Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Prognathodon Currii tooth that I acquired in Tucson last week. Just under 3 inches (2.87in), or about 7.5cm without the attached matrix. Tip was glued back on. There was a Prognathodon Currii skull that I saw in the matrix with the rest of the skeleton as well, the teeth on that one were maybe a 1/2cm larger than mine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Here is one that I had in my collection which I traded for dino material. Its 3 1/4" (8.3 cm) high and base is 2" (5.1 cm) wide 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonlwjy Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 Thank you all for the sharing! these sizes are just so incredible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonlwjy Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 2 hours ago, TyrannosaurusRex said: Prognathodon Currii tooth that I acquired in Tucson last week. Just under 3 inches (2.87in), or about 7.5cm without the attached matrix. Tip was glued back on. There was a Prognathodon Currii skull that I saw in the matrix with the rest of the skeleton as well, the teeth on that one were maybe a 1/2cm larger than mine. Such a monster! do Prognathodon Curri have the largest teeth in this specific genus? This one is much larger than the largest proganathodon tooth i had seen before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 7 minutes ago, jasonlwjy said: Such a monster! do Prognathodon Curri have the largest teeth in this specific genus? This one is much larger than the largest proganathodon tooth i had seen before I'm not sure whether they have the tallest by definition, but they're definitively tbe most massive...! 2 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonlwjy Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 6 minutes ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said: I'm not sure whether they have the tallest by definition, but they're definitively tbe most massive...! What a powerful species it is! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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