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LOT 2487
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Section
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 90 MILLION YEARS B.P.
8 7/8 in. (1.1 kg, 22.5 cm long).
From the front leg of Deltadromeus agilis on a matrix; repaired. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa.
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 2487
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Section
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
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