.34" Theropod (Baby Tyrannosaur?) Tooth - Judith River Formation

Theropod (Baby Tyrannosaur?) Tooth - Judith River Formation #144895

This is a beautiful, little theropod tooth from the Judith River Formation of Montana. These small theropod teeth are always really hard to properly identify, but it appears this tooth is likely that of a baby Tyrannosaur.

Three species of tyrannosaur have been described from the Two Medicine & Judith River Formations: Albertosaurus, Gorgosaurus and Daspletosaurus. Research done on teeth from these three tyrannosaurs has concluded that isolated teeth are statistically impossible to assign to a specific genus because they are so similar.

Morphometry of the teeth of western North American tyrannosaurids and its applicability to quantitative classification

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