Tyrannosaurus Rex Tooth

Tyrannosaurus Rex Tooth

Tyrannosaurus rex

Late Cretaceous Period (approx. 67 million years ago)

Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, Montana

A TOOTH FROM THE KING OF THE DINOSAURS

No animal elicits a combination of fascination, fear, and reverence quite like that of Tyrannosaurus rex, the "tyrant lizard king." Dominating the western landscape of Late Cretaceous North America, T. rex's five-foot-long skull was packed with 60 teeth and featured a bone-crushing bite force of nearly 13,000 pounds per square inch, the strongest of any terrestrial animal other than Gorgosaurus, its tyrannosaur relative. In comparison to other carnivorous theropods, Tyrannosaurus rex teeth are proportionally huge. Robust and thickly-enameled crowns strengthened dozens of teeth, with serrations on both the posterior and anterior edges. 

The almost unrivaled power of this 40-foot-long (12.2 meter) apex predator allowed it to hunt virtually every large dinosaur in its environment, including Triceratops, Ankylosaurus, Ornithomimus, Pachycephalosaurus, Edmontosaurus, and even other tyrannosaurs. Serrated along both edges like a double-sided steak knife, this tooth exhibits signs of wear from consuming its prey. 

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