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Large Triceratops Rib Bone Bite Mark Dinosaur Fossil Hell Creek Formation
$ 21.11
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Description
This listing is for a large Triceratops rib fossil from the Hell Creek Formation.It was a surface find with associated other Triceratops fossil material.
There is a piece of the bone missing that looks a lot like a bite or chew marks that definitely occurred prior to the bone fossilized. Interesting detail that could be studied further.
The fossil comes with a COA upon request.
The Hell Creek Formation dates back to the Late Cretaceous approximately 66-68 million years in age. It represent the coastline of an ancient sea that spanned across the middle of North American during much of the Mesozoic Era. That is why dinosaur remains are so common in the American West, those areas were the ancient floodplains of a seaway that no longer exists. Dinosaur like the famous Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops and Pachycephalosaurus were part of this amazing ecosystem. Other dinosaur such as Edmontosaurus, Thescelosaurus, Struthiomimus and Oviraptorids existed here as well. And of course there were the Dromaeosaurs "Raptors) that inhabited this area and preyed upon these species such as Acheropraptor and Dakotaraptor.