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LOT 2028

Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Group

CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 90 MILLION YEARS B.P.

3 3/8 - 3 1/2 in. (295 grams total, 86-90 mm).

Comprising a clavicle bone section and a front leg bone section from Deltadromeus agilis. [2, No Reserve]

Provenance

From Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco.
From an old German paleontological collection.

Footnotes

Deltadromeus had extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur was an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus.

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LOT 2028

Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Group

Sold for (Inc. bp): £39

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