| Category: | Post-auction sale - Antiques & collectibles |
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| Position: | Id: 27111990 · Catalog number: 08-05159 · Ware in house 2 |
| Price: | 7.500,- € |
| Beschreibung | Large Mixosaurus (mixed lizard), China, 240 million years old, transitional form between primitive ichthyosaurs with an eel-like stretched body and the modern forms, which hada shape similar to today's dolphins, the name of the genus refers to this transitional character, found in 1989; Cleaned with sandblasting technology so that the fossil appears three-dimensional and all head and chest parts have been perfectly preserved, fossil approx. 62x21cm, plate approx. 30x67 cm,museum |