Description: DS69 - Very eye-catching, unique piece from my collection. I had some major hail damage to my house and car, and so am parting with some of my dearest pieces to make the repairs needed.Defined rounded edges and concave surface on one end and tapering to a point with blue-grey rind showing; suspected vertebrae/ likely a cervical vertebrae lower piece.Very cool. It is hard to say for sure the exact skeletal location of this piece; I studied several skeleton diagrams and I’m making an educated guess based on those charts. Likely a Sauropod bone. Shown Wet And Dry; Natural, untreated dinosaur bone. Weight: 353.50 Grams Front: Dry it is light tan with rust color and a band of blue-grey raised rind.It glitters with tiny (mica?) particles. Wet it brightens up with a light red, and the darker areas show marrow. The Rind turns more amber and grey. From this angle it is heart shaped. 3 1/4 inches tall X 1 1/4 to Three inches wide at the concave end. Back: Dry shows a dark tan with off-white and rust colors. Wet darkens up the rust color and shows a creamy white color. It’s slightly smaller and the right side curves toward the narrower top.2 3/ to Three inches Tall X 1 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches wide. Left Side: Tan, off-white with a ridge of blue-grey rind that is smoother than the very textured section on the front/top. Three inches Tall X mainly 2 1/4 Wide; curves into the front of the piece near the top. Right Side: Rounded and shows the defined rind section. Has more pinkish and amber marrow and also a smooth section of whitish rind.Three inches Tall X mainly 2 1/4 inches wide. Sauropods were herbivore dinosaurs that had very long necks, long tails and small heads (relative to their body size) and had four-pillar like legs. They are know for the enormous sizes attained by some species - notably Brontosaurus and Brachiosaurus - but there were some rather small species too that were around twenty feet long. An unusual charactaritc of Saurischian dinosaurs (such as theropods, including birds) is that sauropods had a system of air sacs, evidenced by indentations and hollow cavities in most of their vertebrae. Pneumatic, hollow bones are a feature of all sauropods. These air spaces reduced the overall weight of the massive necks that the sauropods had, and the air-sac system in general, allowing for a single-direction airflow through stiff lungs, made it possible for the sauropods to get enough oxygen Sauropod dinosaur fossils and tracks have been found throughout the world, but Utah has some of the most extensive collections from many locations throughout the state and covering a huge span of years -from Jurassic era of 201,000 to 145,000 million years to the more recent Cretaceous era of 145,000 million to 66 million years ago. Utah is the site of the earliest Morrison dinosaur discovery, Dystrophaeus viaemalae, a sauropod dinosaur discovered on the 1859 Macomb Expedition to southeastern Utah.Although Utah is most famous for its Morrison Formation dinosaur fauna, Utah has a prolific fossil record that spans the entire "Age of Dinosaurs." The dinosaurs thrived for over 150 million years. The fluvial (stream-deposited) sediments of the Morrison Formation dominated the Upper Jurassic landscape of eastern Utah. Originating approximately 150 million years ago as floodplain deposits, the Morrison Formation is exposed throughout the Colorado Plateau, including Colorado, Wyoming, eastern Utah, northern New Mexico, parts of Montana and South Dakota, and the panhandle of Oklahoma.The well-known Morrison dinosaur fauna includes Utah's official state fossil, the meat-eating theropod Allosaurus; other theropods, including Ceratosaurus, Stokesosaurus, and Marshosaurus; the sauropod dinosaurs Apatosaurus (commonly known as Brontosaurus), Camarasaurus, and Diplodocus; and the ornithischians Camptosaurus, Dryosaurus, and Stegosaurus.
Price: 160 USD
Location: Moab, Utah
End Time: 2024-09-18T18:34:45.000Z
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