French customs officers have discovered nine dinosaur teeth during a routine inspection near the Italian border.
Officials stated that the teeth were found in a Spanish lorry on the A8 motorway on January 28.
According to BBC, customs officers found the suspected fossils in two parcels and sent them to a prehistory museum in Menton for examination.
On Friday, experts confirmed that the teeth belonged to a reptile that lived in Morocco during the Late Cretaceous period (72 to 66 million years ago).
Customs officers regularly stop trucks on the A8 motorway between Spain and Italy for inspections.
Customs agents randomly open parcels as they sometimes contain illegal drugs.
Experts identified one of the teeth as belonging to Zarafasaura oceanis, a 3-meter-long (10 feet) marine reptile.
Three other teeth were from a Mosasaurus, a large aquatic reptile that could grow up to 12 meters long.
Meanwhile, five of the teeth are believed to be from Dyrosaurus phosphaticus, an ancient relative of the crocodile.
As per reports, the lorry driver told officials he was delivering the parcels to people in Genoa and Milan.
While collecting fossils is legal, exporting them often requires a license, and officials are now working to identify the recipients.
