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LOT 0444

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430

NATURAL HISTORY - FOSSIL CLAUDIOSAURUS SKELETON
LATE PERMIAN-EARLY TRIASSIC PERIOD, CIRCA 252-250 MILLION YEARS B.P.
12 3/4 in. (8.85 kg, 32.5 cm).

On a rounded matrix.

PROVENANCE:
From Madagascar.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

FOOTNOTES:
Claudiosaurus is an extinct genus of diapsid reptiles from the Late Permian Sakamena Formation of the Morondava Basin, Madagascar. It is theorised that this was a semi-aquatic, lizard-like dinosaur.

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