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Jurassic Sauropod Humerus
7 December 2021, 10:00 PST
Los AngelesUS$8,000 - US$10,000
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Jurassic Sauropod Humerus
Diplodocus
Jurassic
Morrison Formation, Bone Cabin Quarry, Albany County, Wyoming
The present awe-inspiring specimen, the front leg bone of a Diplodocus, was excavated in the summer of 2020 at the famed Bone Cabin Quarry in Wyoming. The Humerus measures 38 inches mounted on a custom steel rotating pedestal.
Diplodocus was even more gigantic than other sauropods of the Jurassic Period, measuring ninety feet in length, with a twenty-six-foot-long neck and a forty-five-foot-long whip-like tail. Painstaking care is required in the excavation and removal of dinosaur bones, as well as in laboratory preparation. Bones must be encased in plaster jackets in the field in order to stabilize the fossil for removal and transport. In the lab, the stone matrix is meticulously removed and additional stabilization techniques may be employed. Measuring 33 x 17 ½ x 8 in. Measuring 37 x 17 ½ x 15 in when mounted on the rotating stand
Jurassic
Morrison Formation, Bone Cabin Quarry, Albany County, Wyoming
The present awe-inspiring specimen, the front leg bone of a Diplodocus, was excavated in the summer of 2020 at the famed Bone Cabin Quarry in Wyoming. The Humerus measures 38 inches mounted on a custom steel rotating pedestal.
Diplodocus was even more gigantic than other sauropods of the Jurassic Period, measuring ninety feet in length, with a twenty-six-foot-long neck and a forty-five-foot-long whip-like tail. Painstaking care is required in the excavation and removal of dinosaur bones, as well as in laboratory preparation. Bones must be encased in plaster jackets in the field in order to stabilize the fossil for removal and transport. In the lab, the stone matrix is meticulously removed and additional stabilization techniques may be employed. Measuring 33 x 17 ½ x 8 in. Measuring 37 x 17 ½ x 15 in when mounted on the rotating stand