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LOT 0444
Fossil Claudiosaurus Skeleton
LATE PERMIAN-EARLY TRIASSIC PERIOD, CIRCA 252-250 MILLION YEARS B.P.
11 1/4 in. (4.34 kg, 28.5 cm).
Showing the acephalic skeleton of the extinct genus of diapsid reptile, on a rounded matrix.
Provenance
From Madagascar.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Footnotes
Claudiosaurus is an extinct genus of diapsid reptiles from the Late Permian Sakamena Formation of the Morondava Basin, Madagascar. It is theorised that this was a semi-aquatic, lizard-like dinosaur.
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LOT 0444
Fossil Claudiosaurus Skeleton
Estimate £1,000 - 1,400€1,160 - 1,620 (for guidance only)$1,350 - 1,890 (for guidance only)
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