Very Large Dinosaur Tooth With Root

Very Large Dinosaur Tooth With Root
Camarasaurus
Jurassic
Morrison Formation, Colorado
Camarasaurus was a huge sauropod, a plant eating dinosaur which lived 150 million years ago. Its name means "chambered lizard", referring to the hollow chambers in its vertebrae. Camarosaurus possessed a larger and sturdier skull than the diplodocids and its teeth were much larger and of a completely different shape. The present Camarasaurus tooth is shaped like a chisel, unlike the slender pencil-shaped teeth of the diplodocids, indicating that Camarasaurus ate different types of vegetation from the other sauropods, most likely coarser plants which grew closer to the ground. Sauropod teeth are much more rare than theropod teeth because the herbivores did not lose their teeth as frequently as carnivores. Length measuring 3 1/2in; Riker Mount measuring 8 x 6in