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Lot 4447
Large Dinosaur Claw
16 May 2018, 10:00 PDT
Los AngelesUS$16,000 - US$18,000
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Large Dinosaur Claw
Carcharodontosaurus saharicus
Middle Cretaceous
North Africa
This very large 100-million-year-old claw is from a large theropod, which lived in North Africa during the Middle Cretaceous. The species weighed as much as two elephants, reached speeds of approximately twenty-five miles per hour, possessed six-inch-long serrated teeth and could have swallowed a human in one bite. Carcharodontosaurus had been described prior to World War II, but the specimens were destroyed during the bombing of Munich. Recent discoveries of the species have shown that it was the second largest carnivorous dinosaur in Africa, after Spinosaurus. The animal to which the present excellent specimen belonged would have reached a size of approximately forty-five feet. Theropod claws are far more rare than teeth, as theropods' teeth were replaced with breakage, whereas claws were not. Measuring 6 1/4in
Middle Cretaceous
North Africa
This very large 100-million-year-old claw is from a large theropod, which lived in North Africa during the Middle Cretaceous. The species weighed as much as two elephants, reached speeds of approximately twenty-five miles per hour, possessed six-inch-long serrated teeth and could have swallowed a human in one bite. Carcharodontosaurus had been described prior to World War II, but the specimens were destroyed during the bombing of Munich. Recent discoveries of the species have shown that it was the second largest carnivorous dinosaur in Africa, after Spinosaurus. The animal to which the present excellent specimen belonged would have reached a size of approximately forty-five feet. Theropod claws are far more rare than teeth, as theropods' teeth were replaced with breakage, whereas claws were not. Measuring 6 1/4in