How's the teeth of carcharodontosaurus?

[Cris Tang]

Good moring.

How's the teeth of carcharodontosaurus?

Is that real?

Thank you.

[Meatasaurus93]

The crown looks to have nice preservation. There are some darker spots on the enamel (mainly near the tip) that look like they might be painted and/or filled, but it's hard to tell without looking at it in person. It could just be the preservation of the tooth.

 

The root, on the other hand, I am not too sure about. The overall shape looks off. The middle of the root looks like it might have been reattached. I circled the area in question below.

 

 

Aside from that, the lower half doesn't follow the morphology that you would expect from a theropod tooth. Most roots that I have seen on theropod teeth (including carch teeth) taper down. The base of yours appears to be expanding. That might indicate that the bottom half of the root is not associated with the crown.

 

Here are some pictures of high quality rooted theropod teeth for comparison:

 

(From Troodon's collection)

 

(I believe this one is a Tarbosaurus tooth)

 

[Guns]

good tooth but fake root 

 

Guns

[Troodon]

Beautiful crown of a Carcharodontosaurid tooth.  Agree with others the Root appears fake.  Roots of theropod teeth typically do not get wider towards the end, just the opposite they become narrower. 

 

[Phos_01]

Crown is okey, but root is not root. Is just attached to make it look beter. 

A crown like this is not so rare. Just be careful that they don't sell you the extra cm's in 'root'

I would avoid.