.58" Allosaurus Tooth Tip - Skull Creek Quarry

This is a nice .58" long tooth tip of Allosaurus fragilis from the Skull Creek Quarry near Dinosaur, CO. There are two crack repairs and no restoration.

It comes from the Salt & Pepper Quarry at Skull Creek, near Dinosaur Colorado. This tooth came from a sandy layer in the quarry about a meter below the layers that contain articulated dinosaur remains. This sandy layer contains teeth and tumbled bones fragments but no articulation, most likely representing an event such as a flood.

This tooth comes from what is called the "Salt & Pepper Layer" of the Skull Creek Quarry, near Dinosaur. Colorado. Within the past several years this quarry has produced articulated remains of several types of dinosaurs, including large theropods, sauropods and Ornithischia. A thin layer in the quarry, probably representing a sandy river bottom, produces many isolated teeth and tumbled bone fragments. The quarry is also the location of the recently announced "Elvis" Torvosaurus find.

A view of operations at the Salt & Pepper quarry in the Spring of 2015.
A view of operations at the Salt & Pepper quarry in the Spring of 2015.
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DETAILS
SPECIES
Allosaurus fragilis
LOCATION
Skull Creek Quarry, Dinosaur, CO
FORMATION
Morrison Formation
SIZE
.58" long (straightline)
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#19358
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