Important Information About Dinosaur Teeth

Dinosaurs, like contemporary sharks, lost their teeth during their lifetimes. Teeth are the most prevalent dinosaur fossils as a result. Teeth, like other vertebrates, are formed of the toughest material (enamel and dentin) present in the body, making them best adapted to be kept when the bone has rotted away and never fossilized.

Many people believe that these fossils are essentially solid stone petrified remnants of teeth, however, this is not how teeth fossilize.

Fossil dinosaur teeth are delicate and can have small cracks on the surface or through the tooth, making them readily breakable if touched. Handling dinosaur fossil teeth takes extra care, as they will break or chip if dropped or knocked against anything hard, such as the glass of a display case.

We can learn a lot about dinosaurs from their teeth. The teeth tell us if they ate meat or vegetation. The teeth also reveal HOW the dinosaur ate.

If they were plant-eaters with long rods that were somewhat spread out in the jaw, their teeth would have been optimum for raking or stripping leaves off of branches, as found in long-necked sauropods. 

If they were plant-eaters with teeth that were densely packed together like long, solid rows of flattened pegs, those teeth would have been ideal for crushing and grinding heavy plant materials, as seen in duck-billed hadrosaurs. Meat-eaters with flat and curved blade-like teeth, like dromaeosaurs, would have ripped their flesh from their victim (raptors).

Meat-eaters with flat and curved blade-like teeth, like dromaeosaurs, would have ripped their flesh from their victim (raptors). Meat-eaters with powerful, conical spike-shaped teeth, like the Spinosaurus family of dinosaurs, would have eaten by seizing and crushing their prey.

Buried Treasure Fossils sells Cretaceous and Jurassic dinosaur fossils and dinosaur teeth for sale from the United States and Morocco. Collectors prize fossil remnants, which include well-preserved teeth, bones, and claws. All of these high-quality specimens were legitimately obtained from private property in the northwest United States and Morocco. All are genuine dinosaur fossils obtained legally from private land!

Nanotyrannus teeth, Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) teeth, and many more species of US dinosaurs are the first items to be added to the catalogs. Updated dinosaur tooth catalogs include those for Carcharodontosaurus (African T. rex), Spinosaurus, Raptors, and Pterosaurs.