Fossil teeth of plant-eating dinosaur found
July 18, 2017
FUKUI- Thirty-five fossilized dinosaur teeth have been found in a stratum some 81 million years old on Nagasaki Peninsula, southwestern Japan, the Nagasaki city government and the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum said Tuesday.
The fossils are believed to be teeth of a bipedal plant-eating dinosaur with many teeth, researchers said.
According to the museum, the fossil teeth were found between 2013 and 2016 in the Mitsuse formation of the late Cretaceous period.
Of the 35 teeth, 34 were found in the same location where fossil teeth of a large tyrannosaurid dinosaur were discovered in 2014.
The 35 teeth are between 5 and 17 millimeters long, 3.1 and 11.3 millimeters wide and 4 and 11.2 millimeters thick.
Their occlusal surfaces are relatively flat and have cross-shaped or Y-shaped patterns that were unique to plant-eating ornithopod dinosaurs. The buccal side of the teeth have protrusions. (Jiji Press)
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