Strange juvenile gorgosaurus tooth
On my birthday I got a juvenile gorgosaur tooth didn’t look special other then the colour but then I started to check it out and study it and instead of serrations there were small holes so I came up with a theory how juvenile tyrannosaurs didn’t have serrations until they got older yet I still need more proof to back up my theory but I found it interesting it was collected on a ranch in the Judith River formation not to far from the Canadian border it is 75 million years old here are some photo
The shape of the cross-section of the tooth at the base is more a function of the tooth position in the jaw and not an indicator of species. Juvenile campanian tyrannosaurid teeth cannot be distinguished between one another. A paper that explored the difference between small Albertosaurus, Daspletosaurus and Gorgosaurus came to this conclusion :
"In summary, although the teeth of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs must belong to one of five types based on position of teeth in the bones of th
