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Excellent Large 19" Adult Hipparion Horse 95% Original SkullSpecies: Extra Fine Large 19" Hipparion Horse from China Species description: Larger horse than American version who began in North America 20 MYA and lasted in US until end on Miocene 5.3 MYA but later in China. The American version was close to Modern horse but the size of a pony. It evolved into a large horse in China and survived for 13 Million years there. It was like an modern horse but had vestigial outer toes in addition to its hoof. It was well over 6 ft long. This animal is from Hipparion Formation China Geological strata: Hipparion Fauna Geological period:10 - 5 MYA Item location: Gansu Providence Red Clay China Item rating and description: 12 ++++X-Nice 19" x 9" High 10 Million Year Old Hipparion Horse Skull. The landscape during the Miocene 10 Million years had so many unusual animals and this animal was one of larger horses throughout time until the modern horse. This specimen is so nice with about 5% restore and crack fills. The Large Teeth are pristine and all are present and showing. Attributes are so numerous but here it goes: perfect set of teeth, no distortions, top bone quality with patented light cream color bone with back of skull complete and x-special : and also the lower jaws including the back all present. It is a real beauty and huge, which makes a supreme representation of this extinct species. This is the first one I've been able to get a in a long time as an adult. Matrix was removed professionally so little exists now. Make this a part of your first-class collection. I normally sell these for $2500 all the time but lowered this to get you started with a super piece. The pics will show you how accurate the above is. Price: US $2,379 Shipping: $87 Use the following methods of payment...
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Extremely Rare One-of-Kind Eaten Juvenile Homotherium Upper Skull with One SaberSpecies: HOMOTHERIUM Crenatidens Species description: This cat evolved from Machairodus and appeared at Miocene - Pliocene border about 5 MYA and lived in Africa as well as Euroasia and dies out lastly in Asia and North America about 10,000 years ago so it was highly successful. It was a scimitar cat built like a modern lion that had about a 13"-14" skull but much longer teeth called sabers. It was larger than average saber-tooth cat that was very successful yet hardly ever found in fossil records. Complete skeletons have only been found in Texas and of this animal complete skeletons in Asia have never been found and only a few skulls. The sabers per head size are smaller than other the big cats. It preyed on wooly mammoths as found out in Texas. It looks like a meg however much shorter sabers and less sized lower saber guard and sabers reached to end of lower jaw as this one does. It reached 1.1 meters at shoulder. As said compared to megantereon, smilodon, and machairodotus its sabers were relatively short but still they are nice sized sabers. It provided a great puncturing and gripping force . The skull was longer than smilodon. This jaw had down-turned forward flanges to protect the scimitars . It large canine teeth were crenulated and designed for slashing rather than purely stabbing. Some of the physical appearances were unusual for a big cat as it had limbs that gave the homotherium a hyena like appearance. The forelegs were elongated while hind legs were rather squat with feet planti-grade causing back to slope down towards a short tail. It had a large nasal square nasal opening like a cheetah which allowed quicker oxygen intake with brain visual cortex large and allowed it to hunt during the day instead of night like many cats. It lived 5 million years longer than megantereon. It hunted in packs and not only killed mammoths but also rhinoceros juveniles. Formation: Longdan Formation Geographical Area: Miocene-Pliocene border to middle of Pleistocene in America and Asia. This one is Early Pleistocene Location: Gansu Providence, Northern Central China-Dongxiang Item description & rating: 15+++ X Ultra RARE Beautiful A Upper Young Homotherium Scimitar Saber-Tooth Cat Skull 9" long x 4" wide with almost 3" saber showing. First this is the only known juvenile China homotherium known in America. No museum and no person owns a juvenile partial homotherium. This is truly one-of-a kind. Serrations and enamel are simply stunning on the one saber. While not complete it is 98 % original bone with 2% restore not completed as shown by small gray areas, It is missing 2-3 inches in back of skull only and that was due to predation not time and erosion. In other words this little guy (estimated 6-8 months old) was killed by a large canid (wolf or hyaena based on conical depressions or bite marks as shown with small grooves all over the surface of the skull where incisors of the cub killer were scraping all over the surface of the skull to scrape meat off the skull. The right saber is excellent with a mm of repair at end of tip and it was exposed more to show how the saber goes back into the skull at top - one more inch probably exists. On the other saber only a small piece sticks out exposed. I do have a large homotherium saber also. Most of upper teeth are there including a saber and 4 incisors - one has to be placed in front , and the premolars and molars which are very different . Adults got 14" long on skulls so very large. Anyone complaining on completeness it is like someone complaining about a brush mark on the Mona Lisa. How do I know this is homotherium for sure. It is the only cat with longitudinal enamel crenulations (subtle ridges), Machs and all other cats have latitudinal ridges forming subtle expanding rings as you go down the length. Homos are like crocodiles and Spinosaurus. I wanted to show each of you about this rare beauty. Homotheriums are over 100 times rarer than the big Machs. They looked like a lion in many ways but larger. Anyway, what a FIND! I'm in heaven on this one. |
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Oreodont Skull w/ Upper JawsSpecies: Merycoidodon gracilis Species description: Oreodont that roamed in small herds and grazed on sedges and prairie grasses. This species was not as common as culbertsonii and had strong jaws and small canine teeth about 40 inches long. Geologic strata: Brule Formation Geologic Period: Oligocene Period 35 MYA Location: Converse County, Wyoming Item description and rating: 11 Beautiful Oreodont skull with upper jaws that has one perfect side and other side nice and due to tetonic forces has some compression- some repair with filing cracks and no restoration Price: US $375 Clearance Sale - US $148 - OR - Use the following methods of payment...
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Large Dorsal vertebrae of Last American Camel-CamelopsSpecies: Camelop Species description: 6' 6" high North American Camel that evolved around 300,000 MYA in AmericaAsia and survived until the end of last Ice Age 12,000 yrs ago that stood tall and was a contemporary of early humans It was the last camel to survive in America. It is actually closely related to South American Llamas but looks like modern Asian camel without the humps. Geological Period: 300,000 yrs ago-12,000yrs ago Pleistocene Geological location prevalent: California , Utah and Arizona Item location: Avra Valley Brawley Wash Tucson, Arizona Item description and rating 12+++ This is a rare complete last Camel in USA vertebrae at least 15,000 years old from late Pleistocene and was contempory of woolly mammoth and saber-tooth cats. This is a large dorsal vertebrae with neural canal and processes in perfect shape. I don't have many Ice Age items for sale so get this before gone and you will look at it all the time due to all the integrity of the vert. Price: US $179 Clearance Sale - US $99 - OR - Use the following methods of payment...
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Rare Complete Hoplophoneus Saber-Cat Skeleton w/o HeadSpecies: Hoplophoneus saber-tooth cat skeleton not including skull. Species description: Hoplophoneus was heavier and larger than Dinictis with longer sabers and was a true saber-tooth cat with saber-guards or flanges on it's mandible to protect it's fangs. These animals ambushed their prey, rather than running it down. We know they had a close family relationship due to multiple animals – family members in close proximity. These were successful animals, however, complete skulls almost never occur in fossil records of 30 MYA. Geological strata: White River Formation 30+ MYA Geologic period: Oligocene 30-23 MYA Item location: Badlands of Converse County, Douglas, Wyoming Item description & rating 12+ This unbelievably is a rare complete skeleton of Hoplophoneus about 4 ft long including tail and without head, which is an accurate representation of this animal. It is almost all bones from one animal but a few from another were placed in back femurs and one humerus in front. The neck vertebrae, dorsal vertebrae and caudal vertebrae including processes are complete and glued on an oak stained board for display. Feet and legs are complete with all bones including support bones on upper feet which are rare. Many bones were glued back together. This is one-of-a-kind and can be compared on a few other websites with wholesale prices starting at $6000 but since I prepped it and took many hours of my own time I can offer it so much less. Don't kick yourself for not buying and miss out on this one – what a piece. You will not find this at better price. For the saber-cat enthusiast and top collectors only. Price: US $9,800 Use the following methods of payment...
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One-Of- Kind Large 11.5" Complete Original Wolf Skull (Canis Teilhardi)Species: Canis teilhardi Species description: It was closely related to Grey Wolf and was a canid, however, was mostly wolf and some wild canine in many features but it is not direct ancestor of any species today. It became extinct at the end of late Pliocene about 1.8 million years ago and reached its peak in Late Miocene - Early Pliocene.It was a carnivore with little known except an aggressive meat eater. Fossils are extremely rare. Geological strata: Longdan Geological period: Middle Miocene 10MYA - Late Pliocene 1.3 MYA Item location: Longdan of Gansu, China Item rating and description: 12 ++++++1 This One-Of-A Kind Asian Miocene Wolf is the rarest item I've ever had. Rarer than any asian sabercat including homotherium. It is so beautiful with excellent bone quality and a complete set of teeth. Its teeth are different than any other animal by far and I will never get another. The government has closed digging in Lougdan so no skulls will come again except for this whole skull. The teeth are unbelievably good.The back of skull is complete and showing and it was professionally prepped by me. IT took a lot of work and it was worth it. IT has bone quality and color that is unsurpassed by any animal I ever got from the area. This is the first good one ever found in last 10 years and fossil are so extreme this is for only an avid discerning collector who wants something neither museums or individuals have. This is even rarer than dire wolf and the last dire wolf skull in America sold for $23,000 at auction recently. While it was fully agape and I could pursue that I thought by providing it this way with everything showing it was not necessary and it displays so well on its lower jaws it would save you lots of money, and any one could purchase it at this price. So IM opening up a one-of-kind mammal to everyone with this low price . I will not get another one and this is a $15,000 discount to a dire wolf, and this is rarer so..... Price: $6,999 Shipping: $99 Use the following methods of payment...
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Two Rare 5" Dire Wolf Metatarsal Toe Bones from Smiliodon Era (Pleistocene)Species: Canis Diris (Dire Wolf) Species description: It was closely related to Gray wolf in many features but it is not direct ancestor of any species today. IT became extinct 10,000 years ago with wooly mammoth. It was larger than Gray Wolf averaging 5 ft in length and weighing 150-175 lbs. Legs of Dire Wolf was shorter and sturdier than those of gray wolf and the brain case was smaller to than the gray wolf. Geological strata: Alachua Formation Geological period: Pleistocene 150,000-10,000 Item location: River Deposit, Florida Item rating and description: 12 2 Perfect Rare Dire Wolf Metatarsal 5" Toe Bones from Florida. These bones have never even been broken for many thousands of years. Most are recovered in La Brea Tar Pits but since those are not available to the public a few are found in Florida and first set was Indiana along the Ohio River. I doubt if you will find whole dire wolf bones anywhere and these are nice color, shape and total completeness is awesome. Here are pics for you to determine that... Price: Both US $265 Shipping: $19 Use the following methods of payment...
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