The Tooth of a Daspletosaurus

Daspletosaurus—an earlier cousin of T. rex—was an apex predator sitting atop the North American food chain of the Late Cretaceous. With a name translating to "frightful and muscular lizard," Daspletosaurus preyed upon ceratopsians, hadrosaurs, and ornithomimids.

Daspletosaurus fossils are exceedingly rare, and their curved, dagger-sharp, double-serrated, blade-like teeth are the only ones known from a tyrannosaurid to grow larger than those of Tyrannosaurus rex. As such, the tooth offered here is a highly-prized specimen and an excellent piece of one of the ancient continent Laramidia's greatest carnivores.