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THIS BLOCK OF PHOSPHATE CONTAINS WHAT I THINK ARE THE REGURGITATED INDIGESTIBLE STOMACH CONTENTS OF A LARGE PREDATOR

POSSIBLY ANOTHER SHARK OR A MOSASAUR

 

 

 

THE BLOCK OF MATRIX SHOWS 25 LARGE OTODUS obliquus SHARK TEETH,SEVERAL OTHER SHARK TEETH POSSIBLY  FROM CARCHARIAS hopei ? or robusta ?, A FISH VERTEBRA AND A QUANTITY OF INDETERMINATE BONE IN AND SCATTERED AROUND A MASS OF VERY HARD CRYSTALLISED DISCOLOURED MATERIAL THAT I TAKE TO BE THE REGURGITATED INDIGESTIBLE STOMACH CONTENTS OF A LARGE  PREDATOR POSSIBLY ANOTHER SHARK OR A MOSASAUR

 

 

 

THE DISCOLOURATION PRESENT IS NOT DUE TO WEATHERING OR ANY OTHER CAUSE THAT MAY HAVE OCCURED POST- MORTEM AS THE BLOCK OF PHOSPHATE MATRIX IS FRESHLY QUARRIED AND I DO NOT THINK THAT THE BLACK MATERIAL IS " PHOSPHATIC "

 

 

 

 

REGURGITION IS WELL DOCUMENTED IN EXTANT SHARKS WHERE IT IS TERMED  "  RAPID VOLUNTARY STOMACH EVERSION  "

 

PREPARED AND MOUNTED BY ME IN THE UK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                    

LOSS OF COLOUR / ENAMEL FROM THIS OTODUS BLADE

INDETERMINATE ? BONE HAS CHANGED COLOUR

THE DISTAL END OF THE RIGHT HAND " ROOT " OF THIS OTODUS TOOTH HAS TURNED  BLACK >> ?? DUE TO PART DIGESTION

INDETERMINATE BONE

CROSS SECTION OF THIS OTODUS TOOTH BLADE HAS CHANGED COLOUR

FISH VERTEBRA

LOSS OF ENAMEL / COLOUR TO THE BLADE OF THIS OTODUS TOOTH

EBONIZED STEEL DISPLAY STAND

SIZE:  BLOCK OF MATRIX : 400mm x 450mm x 140mm THICK.

OVER ALL SIZE WITH EBONISED STEEL DISPLAY STAND: 550mm HIGH

LARGEST TOOTH: 100mm LONG

FISH VERTEBRA: 10mm DIAMETER

DISPLAY STAND: 480mm x 225mm x 55mm THICK

 

PRICE: £                       

                                                 SOLD

 

 

 

A MIXOSAURID ICHTHYOSAUR FROM THE MIDDLE TRIASSIC OF GUIZHOU PROVINCE CHINA ( ? PHALARODON CF. P. FRAASI )

MIDDLE TRIASSIC

GUANLING FORMATION

GUIZHOU PROVINCE

CHINA

NOW SOLD THANKS

A ESSENTIALLY COMPLETE DISARTICULATED MIXOSAURID ICHTHYOSAUR SHOWING SOCKETED DUROPHAGOUS ( SHELL CRUSHING ) AND CONICAL TOOTH MORPHOLOGY

SHOULDER GIRDLE AREA

GASTRALIA

ELEMENTS OF A FORE PADDLE AND THE SHOULDER GIRDLE

PELVIC GIRDLE WITH FEMORA AND ELEMENTS OF THE REAR PADDLES AND HUMERI FROM THE FRONT PADDLES

COMPRESSED LOWER JAWS CENTRE , ANTERIOR RIGHT SIDE OF UPPER JAW TO THE RIGHT WITH CONICAL TEETH IN SITU

SHOWING UPPER RIGHT THE ANTERIOR END OF THE LEFT SIDE UPPER JAW WITH WITH SEVERAL CONICAL TEETH IN SITU, EMPTY SOCKETS FOR THE DURAPHAGUS TEETH AT THE POSTERIOR END . LOOSE TEETH AND ELEMENTS OF A SCLERAL RING IN THE MATRIX

ORBITS

SIZE : PLAQUE - 1100 mm x 520 mm x 15 mm Thick

 

LOWER JAWS / SKULL : 250 mm Approxmately

ORBITS : 35 mm Diameter . HUMERUS : 25 mm Long Approxmately . VERTEBRA - Dorsal - : 15 mm Diameter

 

PRICE : £     SOLD

 

THE SPECIMEN IS 100 % ORIGINAL WITH NO ADDITIONS OR ENHANCEMENTS.

DURING THE QUARRYING AND COLLECTION OF THIS SPECIMEN SEVERAL SECTIONS OF MATRIX WERE LOST,

I HAVE INSERTED SEVERAL PIECES OF THE SAME MATRIX INTO THE PLAQUE AND REINFORCED THE BACK WITH FIBREGLASS AND RESIN

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