TWO RARE "RAPTOR" DROMAEOSAUR DINOSAUR FOSSIL CAUDAL VERTEBRAE *DBX022

Product Description

ID

Dromaeosaur

FOUND

Kem Kem Beds
 - NW Sahara Desert, Morocco

AGE

LATE CRETACEOUS PERIOD:
 100 - 66 million years

SIZE

3" and 2.25" long

CONDITION

NO REPAIR OR FABRICATION

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

NOTE

POST-CRANIAL DROMAEOSAUR
FOSSILS ARE EXTREMELY RARE.

Comes with a certificate of 
authenticity / information sheet

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These two fossil caudal (tail) vertebrae are from a large dromaeosaur "raptor" dinosaur from Northwest Africa.  Post-cranial fossil dromaeosaur remains 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 specimens offered here are complete enough to correctly assign it to dromaeosaur, and one has a small cavity on one side of the centrum to show it is hollow, a unique trait of dromaeosaurs.  Both are INTACT with NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION.