05147 - Top Serrated 0.43 Inch Dromaeosaur Raptor Tooth Cretaceous KemKem Beds Squalicorax Haluza et al

Haluza et al

Natural orange iron sulfide (pyrite) oxidation color

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Campanian and Maastrichtian mosasaurid reptiles from central Poland Marcin Machalski

05147 - Top Serrated 0.43 Inch Dromaeosaur Raptor Tooth Cretaceous KemKem Beds Squalicorax Haluza et alThis tooth represents a perfect example of the dentition features typical of the small theropods (raptors) that dominated the ecosystems of the Upper Cretaceous in the north of Africa. In general this type of teeth have usually a small size. The teeth with strong and vivid fossilization colors such as red, orange and black come from small paleochannels composed by thin layers, in the intermediate and upper stratigraphic levels (Red Sandstone Beds),