Excellent Nanotyrannus Tooth from Hell Creek Formation

Nanotyrannus lancensis Dinosaur Tooth

Class Sauropsida, Superorder Dinosauria, Order Ornithischia, Suborder Theropoda, Family Tyrannosauridae

Geological Time: Late Cretaceous (70 million years ago)

Size: 34mm in length (1 1/4”)

Fossil Site: Hell Creek Formation, Butte County, South Dakota

Fossil Code: PFV304

Price: Sold


Description: An excellent mid-sized Nanotyrannus tooth. It exhibits excellent serration on both the posterior and anterior keel. The only flaw is a bit of enamel is missing along the tip. Otherwise it exhibitsNanotyrannus lancensis excellent and presence. Nanotyrannus ("tiny tyrant") is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur, and is possibly a juvenile specimen of Tyrannosaurus. A 50% complete specimen of Nanotyrannus was discovered by a crew from the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Illinois in 2001. It went on display under the name “Jane” in June of 2005 at the Burpee Museum, and is the most complete example of the taxon to be seen anywhere in the world.

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