Raptor Tooth | Late Cretaceous | Morocco

Unidentified Raptor
Late Cretaceous (~95 million years ago)
Kem Kem Beds
Taouz, Kem Kem Basin, Morocco

Tooth approx. size: 0.78"

Comes in a 3.5" x 3.5" floating frame display case.

This genuine dinosaur tooth is from the Late Cretaceous Kem Kem Beds in Morocco. The small theropod dinosaurs in this formation have not been identified yet, mainly due to a shortage of articulated bone material. This makes it impossible to determine a species or even a genus based on these teeth alone.

These small teeth are frequently referred to as raptor teeth. A study examining isolated teeth from the Kem Kem beds determined that only a portion of these small theropod teeth can be linked to an unknown Dromaeosaur (true raptor), while numerous ones can be linked to a yet-to-be-identified Abelisaur. The visual disparities between the teeth they assigned to these two dinosaurs are minimal, resulting in the classification of these teeth as unidentified.