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LOT 0395
Fossil Keichousaurus Marine Reptile Skeleton
TRIASSIC PERIOD, CIRCA 250 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 5/8 in. (197 grams, 11.7 cm).
Comprising a complete Keichousaurus hui skeleton on a rectangular matrix.
Provenance
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Footnotes
Keichousaurus was a late Triassic marine reptile, a member of the Pleurosaur family, which went extinct 250 million years ago during the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event. They were specialised fish eaters, and were highly unusual amongst marine reptiles in that they gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs.
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