LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- A fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex tooth among the largest ever found is going up for sale in California, estimated to bring $25,000 and $30,000, auctioneers say.
Discovered only weeks ago in Garfield County, Mont., the tooth will be offered by Bonhams auction house at its Dec. 11 Natural History auction in Los Angeles, a Bonhams release reported Tuesday.
The tooth is from the upper left portion of the mouth, the area in the T. rex's mouth with the largest teeth, a Bonhams director said.
"The tooth is one of the largest individual T. rex teeth to be offered at public auction," Thomas Lindgren, co-consulting director of the Natural History Department at Bonhams, said. "It measures 5 1/8 inches [linear measurement] from base to tip.
"The tooth is more massive than any of the teeth of the well-known T. rex Stan, and is possibly larger than those of Sue, the famous T. rex residing in the Field Museum, Chicago."
The December sale also includes one of the larger saber-toothed cat skulls ever offered at auction, a gigantic Machairodus giganteus skull measuring almost 18 inches long, Bonhams said.
