Natural History - Fossil Plesiosaur Vertebrae

JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 199-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.

14 1/8 in. (4.8 kg, 36 cm).

A pair of Plesiosaur sp. fossil marine dinosaur vertebrae in a matrix; contained within a plaster field jacket. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Literature

See O’Keefe, F.R., The evolution of plesiosaur and pliosaur morphotypes in the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia), 2002, Paleobiology, 28: 101-112.

Footnotes

Plesiosaurs were among the first fossil animals to reach the general public's consciousness through the publication of two imaginatively illustrated books by Thomas Hawkins, a noted collector of fossils: Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri (1834) and The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons (1840). Using the historical models of his times, Hawkins regarded plesiosaurs as monstrous creations of Satan.

CONDITION

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