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LOT 2316
Natural History - Fossil Barasaur Reptile Skeletons
LATE PERMIAN-EARLY TRIASSIC PERIOD, CIRCA 255 MILLION YEARS B.P.
11 5/8 in. (2 kg, 29.5 cm).
Two rare Barasaurus besairiei skeletons on a matrix.
ProvenanceFrom Plateau de I'lsala, Madagascar.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.
Barasaurus is an extinct genus of the Owenettid procolophonoidpara reptile.
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