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LOT 0444
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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