Mosasaur
Fossil
About it
Big Late Cretaceous sea lizards; collectors mostly meet their curved, cone-shaped teeth and vertebrae from Morocco's phosphate mines. Maastricht and the Kansas chalk gave famous skeletons; US federal land needs a permit.
- Type
- Fossil (vertebrate)
- Group
- Mosasaur (marine reptile)
- Colours
- brown, black, grey, tan, cream
- Transparency
- opaque
- Periods
- Cretaceous
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.