Lot 441
97 MILLION YEAR OLD GUITAR FISH. This extremely large 18.5 x 3 inch long Guitar fish, Rhinobatos hakelensis is 97 million years old from the sublithographic limestone deposits of Haqel, Lebanon. A Guitarfish is a ray that is quite primitive and has characteristics of both a shark and a skate. They are bottom feeders with small crushing teeth and fed on crabs and clams. Being cartilaginous they rarely fossilize but this attractive near complete brown specimen is the exception. The two small dorsal fins are present as well as the tooth pavement with some teeth extending outwards from both sides of the tooth pavement which extends back from the tip of the snout towards the two small eyes. This impressive fossil ray has nicely contrasting light and dark brown color on the 21.5 x 5.25 inch light tan limestone matrix.
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Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000.
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