Elasmosaurus Dinosaur Tooth in Matrix

Approximately 93 million to 70 million years old Approximately 3-4" but may vary depending on the matrix size as the matrixes are natural  Elasmosaurus was a plesiosaur which is a type of marine reptile. It was not actually a dinosaur as some would assume, though it coexisted with many dinosaurs. Funny enough, The Loch Ness Monster is believed by some to be an Elasmosaurus but you'll see why below that couldn't be the case (and for other fairly obvious reasons). The first Elasmosaurus fossil was discovered in 1868, shortly after the end of the Civil War. A military doctor in western Kansas discovered a fossil of Elasmosaurus. It was actually named by an American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope, who received the specimen shortly after its discovery. Kansas may seem like an odd place to find marine fossils, especially of this size but, during the late Cretaceous, the American West was covered by a shallow body of water called the Western Interior Sea. Today, paleontologists spend a go