Three examples Keichousaurus-Hui (Nothosaurus) with Asia lepidotus, Guizhou Prov…
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Three examples Keichousaurus-Hui (Nothosaurus) with Asia lepidotus, Guizhou Province, China, 240 million years old, three perfectly preserved males, 23/26/28cm, delicate, beautiful details of the raised bone structure, fine pointed teeth (fish trap teeth), Natural tiny quartz veins run through the smooth stone slab, approx. 43x34x2 cm, 6 kg, museum grade A genus of marine reptiles from the Pachyplurosaur family that died out at the end of the Triassic-Jurassic period. Asia lepidotus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Ladin stage of the Middle Triassic epoch. It contains a single species, A. shingyiensis, from Guizhou, China; The Lepidotus fish was sacred to the Egyptians and was linked in mythology to the story of the god Seth Osiris. Extraordinarily rare find of these various fossils on a plate with a feeding action in which the fish grabbed a Nothosaurus, absolute museum, 6000-8000 Euro

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Three examples Keichousaurus-Hui (Nothosaurus) with Asia lepidotus, Guizhou Province, China, 240 million years old, three perfectly preserved males, 23/26/28cm, delicate, beautiful details of the raised bone structure, fine pointed teeth (fish trap teeth), Natural tiny quartz veins run through the smooth stone slab, approx. 43x34x2 cm, 6 kg, museum grade A genus of marine reptiles from the Pachyplurosaur family that died out at the end of the Triassic-Jurassic period. Asia lepidotus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Ladin stage of the Middle Triassic epoch. It contains a single species, A. shingyiensis, from Guizhou, China; The Lepidotus fish was sacred to the Egyptians and was linked in mythology to the story of the god Seth Osiris. Extraordinarily rare find of these various fossils on a plate with a feeding action in which the fish grabbed a Nothosaurus, absolute museum, 6000-8000 Euro

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