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.

CONDITION

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LOT 0444