06927 - Top Huge 7.48 Inch Dyrosaurus phosphaticus Vertebra Bone Eocene Platyscutellum Precious specimen
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
Precious specimen
lacustrine (2)
Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral
See also Long 1992
Even I used the name of Halisaurus walkeri
06927 - Top Huge 7.48 Inch Dyrosaurus phosphaticus Vertebra Bone Eocene Platyscutellum Precious specimenBeautiful vertebra bone. It has glued and filled fractures. Dyrosaurus is a genus of extinct crocodylomorph that lived from the upper Cretaceous to the Eocene period, surviving the K Pg extinction event. Dyrosaurus are linked to pholidosaurids as a clade and are defined as slender snouted, fish eating specialists adapted to near shore marine habitats. The Dyrosauridae are a group of mostly marine, long jawed, crocodile like quadrupeds up to 6 metres