Lot 1747
Rare 12 Inch-Long, Fat-Tailed Stingray. Stingrays are among the rarest and most beautiful of all the Green River, Wyoming fossils. Stingrays rarely fossilize because, like sharks, their skeletons are cartilaginous. This museum-quality, 12-inch long fossil preserves the very tiny bones of the "wings," the complete tail with its stingers, and even its toothplate with its tiny shell-crushing teeth. Toothplates rarely show because the stingray needs to be buried upside down for the teeth to show. As an added bonus, this is a rare species of stingray that has a wider tail than the usual variety, Heliobatis radians. Thousands of fossil fish are found each year in the Green River fossil lakebed, but only two or three stingrays.
Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,500.
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| Realized $1,955 |
