1.2" hot Pterosaur Coloborhynchus Fossil Tooth Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Age Flying Reptile Kem Kem Basin Morocco Free COA, Display And Shipping

Location: Kem Kem Basin, Morocco

Weight: 0.3 Ounces

Dimension: 1.2 Inches Long, 0.4 Inches Wide

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Upper Cretaceous 96 Million Years Old

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Name: Coloborhynchus (Maimed beak).

Diet: Piscivore.

Size: Largest species up to 7-meter wingspan. Largest skull length up to 75 centimeters long.

Fossil representation: Several specimens, but usually of fragmentary remains.

The forward dentition of Coloborhynchus was quite special with the front two teeth pointing forwards, and the immediate three pairs of teeth behind them pointing to the sides. This tooth arrangement would have made it much easier for Coloborhynchus to catch and carry fish out of the water. The remaining teeth behind the front just pointed down. Coloborhynchus also had a keeled crest on the tip of its snout which was widest at its base and grew steadily thinner towards the top.

The genus Coloborhynchus was created when Richard Owen rejected Harry Govier Seeley's creation of the Ornithocheirus genus from the various unnamed fossils that had been recovered from the Cambridge Greensand. This name change was actually conceived upon the grounds that Owen disagreed with the name 'bird hot hand' being used for a reptile. Owen also created a second genus called Criorhynchus.

Coloborhynchus was founded upon the basis that the two front teeth were the defining trait. However, in 1914 Reginald Walter Hooley declared this trait as actually created by the erosion of the fossil and were not representative of the living creature. Hooley absorbed Coloborhynchus into Criorhynchus, a decision that would be acceptable for most of the twentieth century.

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