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Lot 914
Rare Dinosaur Skin With Soft Tissue. Dinosaur skin is the rarest and most coveted of dinosaur fossils because of its extreme rarity being preserved only under extraordinary conditions. The dinosaur had to have been completely covered by fine mud sediments probably in a large river delta within a day or so after to avoid bacterial breakdown of the skin and soft tissue which would occur immediately. This type of extreme condition may have occured in a massive flood. The skin texture was impressed in detail in the soft clay forming a natural mold which was later filled by more muddy sand creating a antural cast and remained intact for over 65 million years even after skin and other soft tissue was destroyed by bacteria. This large section of dinosaur skin is from an Edmontonsaurus duckbilled dinosaur is between 65-70 million years old and was found along with some fragmented Edmontonsaurus bones in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana.
This very large slab containing both dinosaur skin impressions plus some soft tissue preservation is 11 x 9 7 inches. One of the edges has a large very distinct skin impression measuring 7 x 3 inches plus on one of the 11 inch sides there is a well detailed long section of skin measuring 12 x 1.25 inches that curves back inside the matrix where there is almost certainly more skin to be found. On the opposite long 11 inch side from this can be found the unbelievably rare fossilization of soft tissue. Of particular interest is a 5 x 4 inch section that has some small and larger brown bumps and some dark brown harder stuctures that almost look like bone except there is absolutely no porous bone structure that would certainly be preserved on this well preserved specimen if they were bone. They are traces of soft tissue in the dinosaur that was preserved underneath the skin layer. What they are needs to be determined as its is quite possible that these structures have never been observed before in a dinosaur. Most sections of dinosaur skin offered for sale are quite small due to the high value of dinosaur skin impressions, but this unique piece of dinosaur skin and soft tissue fossilization has been left intact for both museum quality display and study.
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Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000.
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