Lot 668
Pair of Dinosaur Footprints - 200 Million Years Old. These footprints of two different kinds of early dinosaurs resulted from these dinosaurs walking on a muddy stretch of beach over 200 million years ago near Lincoln Park, New Jersey. These therapods (meat-eating dinosaurs) lived more than 130 million years before T-Rex and were the top predators of their day but much smaller in size. Dinosaurs typically started out small and grew larger over time as the "arms race" between plant eaters and meat eaters intensified. The excellent, well-defined, large theropod footprint measures 8 x 3 inches and even shows the large claw impressions on the ends of the toes. This type of print has the name Grallator cunceatus, although what the dinosaur was who left it is undetermined. Very few dinosaur bones have been found in New Jersey at this time. The fainter, smaller footprint is 4½ x 3 inches from a different species of dinosaur, also unknown. The large Grallator footprint is aesthetically centered on a 17 x 9 inch gray matrix and is a contrasting black in color. Weight is 5½ pounds.
Estimated Value $650 - 950.
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| Realized $518 |
