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An ammonite specimen (Placenticeras meeki) 75- to 72-million-years-old (Late Cretaceous) Bearpaw Formation, Alberta, Canada With areas of red ammolite and bearing mosasaur teeth marks. Together with a mosasaur tooth specimen. 27cm wide x 22cm high (10.5in x 8.75in) Provenance:The property of Andrew Parker, lead researcher at the Natural History Museum, London. Acquired in Alberta, Canada. Footnote:The mosasaur was a large aquatic reptile which, during the last 20 million years of the Cretaceous period, was a dominant marine predator. The mosasaur would typically bite through the shell of an ammonite, flooding it with water and allowing it to extract the squid within.
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