Lot 897
Huge 97 Million Year Old Guitar Fish. This extremely large 23 x 5 inch long Guitar fish, Rhinobatos hakelensis is 97 million years old from the sublithographic limestone deposits of Haqel, Lebanon. Guitar fish is a ray that is quite primitive and has characteristics of both a shark and a skate. They are bottom feeders with small crushing teeth and feed on crabs and clams. Being cartilaginous they rarely fossilize but this attractive complete brown specimen is the exception. The body, fins, tail, head and dramatic eyes are exquisitely fossilized. The fish is nicely displayed on an 27.5 x 8 inch hard limestone matrix. There has been some repair in putting back together several breaks in the matrix but this is almost always the case for such large slabs of stone as they cannot be taken out of the ground whole and the fossil is not adversely affected by the cracks.
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Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000.
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| Realized $1,438 |
