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LOT 2477
Fossil Dinosaur Footprint
LOWER JURASSIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200 MILLION YEARS B.P.
6 3/4 in. (509 grams, 17 cm).
Flat irregular plaque of sedimentary rock with footprint. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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Fossil Claudiosaurus Skeleton
Late Permian-Early Triassic Period, circa 252-250 million years B.P.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £500
Showing the acephalic skeleton of the extinct genus of diapsid reptile, on a rounded matrix. 4.34 kg, 28.5 cm
From Madagascar. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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. -
Fossil Spinosaurus Dinosaur Tooth Pair
Cretaceous Period, circa 125-113 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Comprising two teeth with partial roots; repaired. 30 grams total, 55-64 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
The Spinosaurus was both a beachcomber type scavenger and an active hunter taking small stranded Plesiosaurs, Pterosaurs, turtles and large fish. -
Composite Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Tooth Group
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Comprising two Mosasaur prognathodon teeth set on sandstone matrices. 569 grams total, 111 mm each
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
