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Pseudopalatus Reptile Tooth #4

$25.00

Fossil Reptile Collection

1 in stock

Description

  • Pseudopalatus
  • Reptile Tooth
  • Triassic Age
  • Bull Canyon Formation
  • San Miguel County, New Mexico
  • Specimen measures approx  1/16″ long and will come in a 1.25″ Gem Jar

Pseudopalatus Mehl, 1928 Machaeroprosopus is an extinct genus of pseudopalatine phytosaurid from the Late Triassic of the southwestern United States.  The phytosaurs or “croc-line” archosaurs didn’t look much like crocodiles, but phytosaurs were a definite exception. In fact, phytosaurs looked almost exactly like living crocs. They had short legs, wide, heavy bodies with rows of armored scales, long tails, and long toothy snouts.