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Lot 1124
Complete Psittacosaurus Dinosaur. Psittacosaurus is a very important dinosaur that lived between 120-130 million years ago in Liaoning Province, Central Asia. Psittacosaurus is important as being the oldest ancestor of the famous horned dinosaurs such as Triceratops. Psittacosaurus did not have horns but did possess a horned beak and bony Jugals (back of the upper jaw) which are characteristic of only ceroptopsian (horned) dinosaurs. Psittacosaurus is the most studied of all dinosaurs because it is known from all stages from hatchling to adult. With eggs about 3 inches long, the hatchlings were about 6 inches long and adult Psittacosaurs were over 4 feet long. This juvenile 30.5 inch Psittacosaurus is about 70% complete with only two bones in the right arm, all rib bones and about half of the delicate neural spines being professionally restored. The great preservation of the small delicate bones occurred because this dinosaur was instantly buried under volcanic ash over 120 million years ago, a sort of dinosaurean Pompei The all important skull is 4 x 3.5 inches completely removed from its hard stony matrix which took over 20 hours of careful detailed work. It is one of the very best skulls found not distorted or compressed and with some real teeth on both sides of the skull. This medium size complete dinosaur would make an excellent desk top or shelf display and comes standing atop a 11 x 9 inch faux rock standing on one leg All of the metal rods have been inserted inside of the bones resulting in a very natural free standing specimen with the only visible rods being in the attachment of the back leg. The skull and legs can easily be removed from the matrix for examination and study.
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Estimated Value $10,000 - 12,500.
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