Lot 512
ENORMOUS SPINOSAURUS HAND CLAW. Made famous in "Jurassic Park III" as the dinosaur that killed a T-Rex, the enormous theropod dinosaur Spinosaurus with a huge sail on its back remains an enimagmatic dinosaur as no skeleton even remotely complete has been found and the only partial skeleton was destroyed in World War II. Spinosaurus is mostly known from its teeth which are fairly common but usually broken and ugly. Claws are rarely found and big claws such as this 6 inch complete museum quality hand claw (measured along the curve) showing all of the blood grooves with a perfect tip and no restoration are only seen in museums. Claws are much rarer than teeth because the dinosaur could replace its teeth but not the claws. This 80 million year old dinosaur claw was found in the Kem Kem Valley near Taouz, Morocco (near the border with Algeria). This museum quality fossil is housed in a 8X6 inch Riker mount.
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Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000.
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