Home > Auctions >
21st February 2023 > Natural History - Three-Dimensional Mosasaur Skull with Vertebrae
Print page | Email lot to a friend
Back to previous pageUse mousewheel to zoom in and out, click to enlarge
Gallery loading...
LOT 0447
Estimate
GBP (£) 2,500 - 3,500
EUR (€) 2,830 - 3,960
USD ($) 3,080 - 4,310
£2,250 (EUR 2,545; USD 2,772) (+bp*)
Please login or register here.
Please use your registered email address to log in
Bid History: 0
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).
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
24 1/2 in. (19.7 kg, 62 cm wide).
A fossil Mosasaur sp. 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.
