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Montana Cretaceous Crocodile Scute #5

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  • Genuine Fossil Crocodile Scute
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Description

  • Crocodile Scute –  (Borealosuchus, Stangerochampsa or possibly Brachychampsa montana)
  • Cretaceous Age
  • Hell Creek Formation
  • Garfield County, Montana
  • Specimen measures approx. .34″ wide and will come in a 1.25″ Gem Jar with ID

Inside the scute is a bone that helps protect the alligator from attack. ­Crocodiles have numerous special features that have allowed them to stick around for 180 million years. For example, crocodiles are armor-plated. Bony plates inside the skin, called osteoderms or scutes, make the skin very hard to penetrate.
Osteoderms are bony scutes embedded underneath the dermal layers of the skin acting as a protection of the internal organs and tissues. Additionally, these scutes function as an aid in temperature regulation. The scutes are inter-linked by fibrous connective tissue.

 

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Location

Montana