Natural History - Fossil Barasaurus Parareptile Skeleton

EARLY TRIASSIC PERIOD, CIRCA 255 MILLION YEARS B.P.

9 in. (2.37 kg, 23 cm wide).

A complete fossil Barasaurus besairiei skeleton on a matrix.

Provenance

From Plateau de I'lsala, Madagascar.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, paleontological collection.

Footnotes

Barasaurus is an extinct genus of the Owenettid procolophonoid parareptile.

CONDITION

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LOT 0449