Lot 1470
Merycoidon Mammal Skull With Leg And Hoof Bones. Merycoidon was a strange 30 million year old mammal from the extinct oreodont mammal group that has no modern relatives and had some features of a pig and some of a deer. This original limestone block is 14 x 10 inches and contains an 8 x 6 inch skull that has several cracks, but is nearly complete. It displays an excellent upper jaw with most of the teeth present on both sides with one nice incisor that is sharp and somewhat pig-like and one complete lower jaw with most teeth and the other side of the lower jaw still mostly buried in the matrix. In addition, there are several bones of one of the legs ending in two partial hooves and also several vertebrae from the neck. This is a completely original fossil block found on privately owned land in the White River Badlands formation of South Dakota.
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Estimated Value $750 - 950.
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