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LOT 2490
Natural History - Three-Dimensional Mosasaur Skull with Vertebrae
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
24 1/2 in. (19.7 kg, 62 cm wide).
Displaying the skull with at least 33 teeth surviving in the upper and lower jaw, many with remains of enamel, alongside the remains of at least 15 of the animal's vertebrae; a juvenile on a sedimentary matrix wrapped in a plaster field jacket.
Provenance
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11722-197505.
Footnotes
Mosasaurs (from the Greek for 'lizard') were aquatic dinosaurs which probably gave birth to live young.
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LOT 2490
Natural History - Three-Dimensional Mosasaur Skull with Vertebrae
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
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