DBX020 - RARE "RAPTOR" DROMAEOSAUR DINOSAUR FOSSIL CAUDAL VERTEBRA BONE WITH INTACT NEURAL CANAL

Product Description

ID

Dromaeosaur

FOUND

Kem Kem Beds
 - NW Sahara Desert, Morocco

AGE

LATE CRETACEOUS PERIOD:
 100 - 66 million years

SIZE

3.15" long

CONDITION

NEARLY COMPLETE WITH STABLE
AGE CRACKS.

NO REPAIR OR FABRICATION

SMALL CAVITY ON SIDE OF
CENTRUM SHOWS IT IS HOLLOW
WHICH IS DIAGNOSTIC OF
DROMAEOSAURS

NOTE

PRIMARY DROMAEOSAUR FOSSIL
BONES ARE EXTREMELY RARE.

ONE EXAMPLE WE HAVE OUT 
OF A LARGE COLLECTION!

Comes with a certificate of 
authenticity / information sheet

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This is a nearly complete, and SUPER RARE fossil caudal (tail) vertebra of a large dromaeosaur "raptor" dinosaur from Northwest Africa.  Major fossil dromaeosaur bones have always been rare fossil finds.  Dromaeosaur bones are hollow, extremely fragile and rarely survive over time.  This is why you seldom see any bones of consequence, leaving teeth and the rare claw, to be their only fossil remains typically found.  The most commonly seen dromaeosaur bones are "toe" bones and even then, they are often from crocodile, turtle or simply impossible to attribute. 

The specimen offered here is complete enough to correctly assign it to dromaeosaur, and it has a small cavity on one side of the centrum to show it is hollow, a unique trait of dromaeosaurs.  A substantial portion of the transverse and dorsal processes are present and the neural canal is complete and intact.  Color is a rare white with silicified sand on some surfaces that remained after our lab cleaning.

Despite years and years of overseas travel to the fossil deposits of the Kem Kem Beds in the Sahara, this is the first time we have had a bone like this from a dromaeosaur. 

It is INTACT with NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION.