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Catalog no: 05-05354
Id: 27088775
Antiques and collector objects
Auction at 30.05.26
Begin: 10:00 AM
Preview from 19.05.26
Ware in HENRY´s house 2
Large fossil plate with the rare predatory fish Saurichthys and two Keichosaurs,
Guizhou Province China, Triassic (251.9-201.3 million years), two specimens of Keichousaurus
(male and female), an Asialepidotus with beautiful scales and possibly a baby; plus
a particularly rare Saurichthys predatory fish; all animals are in a detailed condition,
prepared in relief and partly supplemented, particularly rare and unique mixture
in one plate, the Saurichthyidae are an extinct fish family whose representatives
lived during the Triassic and Lower Jurassic periods. They werewidespread, elongated
predatory fish with torpedo-shaped bodies, beak-like elongated jaws and conical teeth.
They were 40-180 centimeters long; The dorsal and anal fins were located far back,
symmetrically opposite each other. The caudal fin was externally homocerque, the
scales reduced to four longitudinal rows of ganoid scales
Limit 6.500,- €