E7 - Rare Eocarcharia dinops Dinosaur Tooth - Cretaceous Elrhaz Fm Tenere Desert scales Country: Algeria (Northwest Africa)

Country: Algeria (Northwest Africa)

IT HAS BEEN RESTORED: It has some glued and restored (filled fractures) between the crown and the root bone

Skemmatopyge

Tretaspidinae

Line 0: Place of purchase: Mauritania Date: 2014 Mass (g): 693

E7 - Rare Eocarcharia dinops Dinosaur Tooth - Cretaceous Elrhaz Fm Tenere Desert scales Country: Algeria (Northwest Africa)Scientific name: Eocarcharia dinops, Sereno and Brusatte, 2008 Location: Gadoufaoua, Tner Desert, Niger. Geological Formation: Elrhaz Fm Age: Lower Cretaceous, Aptian Albian stage ( 113 million years) Size (long): 5,3cm = 2. 08 Inch REF.: E7 DESCRIPTION: Eocarcharia (meaning "dawn shark") is a genus of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Elrhaz Formation that lived in the Sahara 112 million years ago, in what today is the