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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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