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LOT 2150
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
NATURAL HISTORY - FOSSIL DELTADROMEUS THEROPOD DINOSAUR VERTEBRA
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 90 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 3/4 in. (364 grams, 12.2 cm).
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 90 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 3/4 in. (364 grams, 12.2 cm).
A vertebra with partial neural arch from the dinosaur Deltadromeus agilis. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
From the Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa.
From an old German paleontological collection.
FOOTNOTES:
Deltadromeus meaning 'delta runner' has extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur is an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus.
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