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Lot 4405

(Dinosaur?) Feather in 100-Million-Year-Old-Amber

16 May 2018, 10:00 PDT
Los Angeles

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(Dinosaur?) Feather in 100-Million-Year-Old-Amber

Indeterminate species
Cretaceous
Hukawng Valley, Myanmar (Burma)

Most amber is too young to contain dinosaur feathers, but Burmite (the 100-million-year-old amber found in the Hukawng Valley in Northern Burma (Myanmar) is from the Age of Dinosaurs. The present fascinating feather specimen, embedded in amber, is a primitive type of symmetric feather without barbules, indicating that it was not a flight feather. Though both birds and dinosaurs possessed feathers at this time, there were many more feathered dinosaurs than birds, suggesting that this specimen could well be from a dinosaur. Representing a captivating mystery, this feather has not yet been identified. Presented in a Riker mount with an enlarged photo of the feather. Feather measuring 12 millimeters; cabochon measuring 17 x 11 millimeters

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