Lot 444
CHILOTHERIUM RHINO SKULL. This huge virtually complete skull comes from a very strange looking early 15 million year old rhino, Chilotherium, from Fugu, Shanxi Province of Central Asia. The upper skull measures 19.5/ x 8.5 inches and has been professionally prepared out of its stone matrix. The white bone quality is excellent with some dark brown matrix still attached for stability. There are twelve very large teeth in the skull, the largest being 2 x 1.5 inches. The lower jaw was missing and has been cast from a complete similar sized specimen and perfectly matched color and texture with the museum quality skull.
Chilotherium was a huge 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 (possibly aquatic) but a very rhino-like face and head with two strange knob shaped horns made out of hair like a rhino and two tusk teeth in the bottom jaw. An impressively mounted huge fossil skull free standing on a custom wooden base.
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Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000.
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