Lot 1719
15 Million Year Old Rhino Skull From China. This huge, virtually complete skull comes from a very strange-looking early rhino (Chilotherium) found in Fugu, Shanxi Province of China. The upper skull measures 19½ x 8½ in. and has been professionally prepared out of its original limestone matrix. The white bone quality is excellent, with some dark brown matrix still attached for stability. There are twelve large teeth in the skull, the largest being 1½ x 2 in. To complete the display, a cast of the lower jaw was carefully prepared from another similar-sized specimen found with this one. The perfectly matched, cast lower jaw has twelve teeth, the largest being 1¾ x 1½ in., along with two 2 in. "tusks"--two teeth which protrude from the lower jaw.
Chilotherium was a very large, early rhino that looked somewhat like a cross between a rhino and a hippo. It had a barrel-shaped body with short legs like a hippo and may have been aquatic like a hippo, but had a very rhino-like face and head, with two weird knob-shaped horns made out of hair (they usually don't fossilize) and two tusk teeth in the bottom jaw. An impressively mounted, huge fossil skull, free standing on a custom wood base. Allow $125 for shipping.
Estimated Value $3,500 - 5,000.
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