Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 134

The Collectibles Auction

Fossils

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 927		Juvenile T-Rex Tooth. All T-Rex teeth are shed teeth except the very few that are found within the dozen or so partial skeletons discovered. This 1½ X 6/10th inch tooth has a squared off base at the bottom of the tooth which is definitive for T-Rex teeth. This fairly large juvenile T-Rex tooth has one excellent displayable side that has dark brown enamel and good serrations. This tooth was found in two pieces and professionally put back together. The back side of the tooth shows some root markings that are typical on T-Rex teeth. Estimated Value $800 - 1,000 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $525
Lot 928		Famous 150 Million Year Old Horseshoe Crab From Germany. Horseshoe crabs are not crabs at all but rather a xiphosurid arthropod with blue blood that are more closely related to spiders and scorpions and a close ancestor to trilobites. Horseshoe crabs (Mesolimulus) are very rare in the fossil record with the best preserved specimens such as this one being found in the 150 million year old lithographic limestone of Solnhofen and Eichstatt, Germany. This 5 ½ X 3 inch long golden Horsehoe crab, Mesolimulus walchi is complete with outstanding detail in a raised 3-D preservation on a 10 X 8 inch limestone matrix. Estimated Value $600 - 1,000 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $625
Lot 929		Tail Vertebrae from a T-Rex. All fossils from a T-Rex are in high collector demand being the most famous and popular dinosaur. T-Rex fossils are much scarcer than the plant eating dinosaurs found in the same 66 -68 million year old Hell Creek Formation. This 5 ½ inch X 3 inch light to dark brown tail (caudal) vertebrae is more than three fourths complete. It definitely is from a T-Rex do to the large size of the pores and the large vessel pores prominent on each side of the bone which is found only in the predatory dinosaur T-Rex. This valuable T-Rex bone was found on a private ranch in Wibaux County, Montana. Estimated Value $600 - 1,000 View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 930		Large 7 ½ Inch Long Mioplosus Green River Fish. Mioplosus labracoides was an extinct relative of modern day trout. It is over 50 million years old from the famous Green River Formation near Kemmerer, Wyoming. Mioplosus was a predatory fish that had two dorsal fins and a fan-like tail. This large 7 1/2inch long fossil fish is virtually complete with excellent detail in the head, body, fins and even a couple of small teeth. The fish is a light brown color with nearly complete vertebrae and spines and is nicely contrasted on a lighter color limestone matrix. Estimated Value $400 - 600 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $242
Lot 931		Cave Bear Jaw. This complete light brown lower jaw of the huge Ursus spelaeus cave bear is between 20,000-150,000 years old and was found in caves in Romania. The jaw is 9inches long and 5 inches wide complete with all four large molars and a large 2 1/8" canine tooth. Three of the large molars are double molars with two teeth. There is also a bite mark from another predator near the back of the jaw. Estimated Value $400 - 800 View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 932		Green Chromium Petrified 5X 4 Inch Wood Log. This rare and unusual green color petrified wood log section is from the 200 million year old Woodworthia sp. tree of Goliwe, Zimbabwe. The partial log is 5 inches in diameter and 4 inches thick and has the highly desirable green color on its polished top which occurred when Chromium from the ground water replaced the wood cells of the original tree. This is a good sized specimen as almost all of the petrified wood from Zimbabwe is small in diameter. Estimated Value $400 - 800 View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 933		Complete Edmontosaurus Duckbill Dinosaur Metatarsal Foot Bone. This 8 1/2 inch long X 3 inches wide metatarsal foot bone belonged to the duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus. Edmontosaurus belonged to the ornithiscian family of dinosaurs known as Hadrosaurs. The metatarsal is a complete light to dark brown foot bone and was found on a private ranch in the 66 million year old Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota. Edmontosaurus lived alongside T-Rex and was one of its most popular prey animals. Estimated Value $300 - 600 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $263
Lot 934		Collection of Four Spiders in Dominican Amber. Amber is the solidified fossilized tree resin from some trees such as the extinct Dominican Hymenaea protea tree that produced resins to help heal breaks and gashes. Occasionally insects of arachnids became trapped in the sticky amber and are mummified (desiccated) with incredible preservation of soft tissues, muscles, microscopic detail and sometimes even color. DNA has been retrieved from the 25-35 million year old Dominican Amber. Spiders are much rarer than the usual found insects. The four spiders range in size from 4mm to 8mm and the clear honey colored amber nugget, polished on all sides range in size from 24 to 50 mm. Estimated Value $300 - 500 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $188
Lot 935		Primitive Whale Basilosaurus Partial Jaw and Tooth. Whales evolved from a four legged land predator (mesonychids) and the early whales still show characteristics of these bizarre wolf-like animals. Basilosaurus at 60 feet long was the largest predator in the ocean 40 -45 million years ago. Basilosaurus still had vestigial hind limbs and land predator type teeth. The completely natural 4 ½ inch partial jaw contains a large dark brown 2 X 1 ½ inch 6 cusped molar tooth with excellent enamel and one other partial tooth. This odd distinctive molar is double rooted with a high crown that was definitely used to tear flesh apart. This remarkable fossil was found in Wadi El Hitan Egypt which is known as Whale Valley. Basilosaurus is the state vertebrate fossil of Alabama and Mississippi. Estimated Value $300 - 600 View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 936		Esthetic Campo Del Cielo 2.5 Pounds. First recorded by the Spanish in 1576, the huge fall of Campo del Cielo (Valley of the Sky) iron-nickel meteorites occurred thousands of years ago. This 4 x 2 1/2 x 2 inch 2 1/2 pound Campo del Cielo iron-nickel meteorites has an esthetic shape with its iron-nickel surface covered with desirable regmaglypts (thumbprints) that formed when the meteor passed through Earth's atmosphere and the troilite in the meteorite melted. This is a perfect example of a palm sized Iron-Nickel meteorite. Estimated Value $300 - 600 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $669
Lot 937		Large Carcharodontosaurus Theropod Dinosaur Tooth. 2 3/4 X 1 1/4 inch complete dinosaur tooth of Carcharodontosaurus saharicus, the T-Rex of Africa. This complete light brown tooth with some dark brown enamel has about 2/3 of its dark brown enamel on one side and just a trace of dark brown enamel on the back side. The tooth is intact without repair with much of its enamel eroded away while buried in the sand of the Sahara desert of Morocco. Carcharodontosaurus was older than a T-Rex at 70-80 million years old. Carcharodontosaurus teeth are much thinner than T-Rex teeth and were excellent for cutting through flesh whereas the much thicker T-Rex teeth could easily bite through bone. housed in a 5X4 inch Riker mount. Estimated Value $250 - 600 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $153
Lot 938		Duckbill Dinosaur Toe Bone. Edmontosaurus annectens was a very large herbivore that was a favorite food choice for T-Rex. It is known as a Duckbill dinosaur because of its wide toothless beak. This is a 2 ½ X 1 ½ inch toe bone from one of the front feet. The light brown toe bone is in very good condition displaying fine bone structure. Edmontosaurus had much shorter front legs and could stand upright on its longer and stronger back legs. The claws on the front feet were much smaller than on the back beet. This dinosaur bone is 65-67 million years old and was found on a private ranch in the Lance Creek Formation of Buffalo, South Dakota. Estimated Value $250 - 500 View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 939		Trilobite 2 Inch Harpes Starship Shaped Bug. Harpes is one of the most interesting shaped trilobites that is found in the 385 million year old fossil beds of Erfoud, Morocco. Most trilobites have a very similar shape that takes an expert to tell them apart. Harpes is very distinctive with its wide cephalon along with long spines sweeping back to its tail, this trilobite looks something like a starship. This 2 inch excellent trilobite is complete with even a myriad of small bumps covering all of its surface which are called postules. The black trilobite is nicely centered on a thick 4 1/2 X 2 x 2 inch limestone matrix. Estimated Value $250 - 500 View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 940		Mustelid From Michigan Bog. Mustelids were weasel type animals similar to minks and ermines. This three inch long 5,000-8,000 brown skull is complete and was found in a Bog deposit in Saginaw county, Michigan. All of the teeth are present and nicely contrasted against the light brown skull. Of special interest is the upper molar in the back of the mouth that is rotated 90 degrees towards the inside of the mouth. This enabled the mustelids to tear off meat from prey animals even if it has been frozen solid. Only mustelids have such a special upper molar. The skull has a beautiful brown color from the minerals in the bog somewhat similar to the animals found in tar pits. This interesting skull comes with a 4X3 inch black base for display. Estimated Value $250 - 500 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $140
Lot 941		Calcified Ammonite from Lyme Regis England. Spiral ammonites are beautiful and widely collected. The lovely ammonites from Lyme Regis, England are particularly attractive especially when part of their shell has been calcified over their 190 million year old age. This 2 inch Promicroceras is large for the species and has half of its shell replaced with yellow calcite crystals and the other half in a dark brown stone. The condition of this complete ammonite is exceptional with its ribs well defined and it sits on its original 8 ½ X2 � inch limestone base. Estimated Value $175 - 400 View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 942		6 Fossilized Mako Shark's Teeth. Mako sharks are one of the known man eating species. They can grow to over 15 feet in length This interesting collection of six 2 - 12 million year old Mako shark's teeth were found in the Virginia River of North Carolina. The grouping consists of three upper and three lower teeth. The teeth range in size from 1 ¼ - 1 ½ inch in length, have medium to dark brown enamel and are somewhat curved with sharp edges but no serrations. The genera rule is that every inch equals 10 feet of shark, so the largest of these teeth belongs to a 15 foot long shark. Estimated Value $150 - 400 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $100