Lot 781
Pair Of Dinosaur Footprints. This pair of rare fossil dinosaur footprints are a dark brown in color on a 8.5 x 9 inch grayish brown shale slab. The footprints are from two different sized unknown bipedal theropod dinosaurs with the prints known as Grallator. The larger Grallator footprint is 5 x 3.25 inches and is deeply impressed in the fossilized mud. The center toe is especially deep and well detailed with a very distinct claw and an imprint of the padding on the bottom of the toe. The second smaller 2 x 1.5 inch foot print is less distinct and not as deeply impressed into the mud and positioned directly to the right of the larger print evoking perhaps a mother and baby dinosaur walking side by side. While the exact species of bipedal dinosaur that made the Grallator footprints is still unknown, it is similar in shape and size to the meat eating dinosaur Podokesaurus, a medium sized theropod, whose partial skeleton was found in the same area. These footprints are the more highly valued positive raised impressions which preserve the most detail of the dinosaur stepping in soft mud preserving some pad and claw details. All of the theropod dinosaur footprints preserve just three toes as theropods walked on their 2nd, 3rd and 4th toes which correspond to the three middle human toes.
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Estimated Value $450 - 600.
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