Parasaurolophus — Tooth
One blade from a grinding battery of hundreds.
This cast reproduces a single tooth from the dense dental battery that lined the jaws, a small wedge built for shearing and grinding fibrous plant matter. It sits comfortably in the palm, a quiet study of the engineering that let these animals process the toughest Cretaceous foliage.
Hand-finished to show the worn grinding surface and ridged enamel, it reads as an intimate counterpoint to the scale of the full mount.
Duck-billed dinosaurs continuously replaced their teeth, stacking many into interlocking batteries that functioned as a single grinding surface.
Worn teeth were shed from the working surface as new ones advanced from below, maintaining the battery throughout life.
These dental batteries made hadrosaurs among the most effective plant-processing animals of the Late Cretaceous.
Parasaurolophus — Tooth
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