Lot 1845 - S17 Out of This World - Tuesday, 28. June 2022, 04.00 PM
GYRODUS CIRCULARIS
Upper Jurassic (Malm), around 145 million years
Found: Eichstätt, Solnhofen, Germany
80 x 54 cm
Found: Eichstätt, Solnhofen, Germany
80 x 54 cm
Provenance: Swiss private collection
Certificate: Comes with a written expertise by world famous paleontologist Jakob Siber, founder of the Dinosaur Museum in Aathal, Switzerland.
The Gyrodus circularis is also called moonfish or pufferfish. The teeth of the animal were extremely well suited to crushing hard-shelled food. It could easily break open shells, snails and corals. The slab comes from the famous fossil find from the quarry area around Solnhofen and it is one of the largest specimens of Gyrodus circularis ever found. Since hardly any Plattenkalk is mined any more, only a few specimens have turned up in recent years. This fossil is in a remarkable condition, shows barely any restoration and contains an intact skeleton where all the fine details, including the teeth, are visible. Quite possibly one of the finest examples of Gyrodus circularis ever discovered.
This very fossil is published in the Book by K. A. Frickhingers, "Die Fossilien von Solnhofen", 1994
Certificate: Comes with a written expertise by world famous paleontologist Jakob Siber, founder of the Dinosaur Museum in Aathal, Switzerland.
The Gyrodus circularis is also called moonfish or pufferfish. The teeth of the animal were extremely well suited to crushing hard-shelled food. It could easily break open shells, snails and corals. The slab comes from the famous fossil find from the quarry area around Solnhofen and it is one of the largest specimens of Gyrodus circularis ever found. Since hardly any Plattenkalk is mined any more, only a few specimens have turned up in recent years. This fossil is in a remarkable condition, shows barely any restoration and contains an intact skeleton where all the fine details, including the teeth, are visible. Quite possibly one of the finest examples of Gyrodus circularis ever discovered.
This very fossil is published in the Book by K. A. Frickhingers, "Die Fossilien von Solnhofen", 1994
环角鱼(GYRODUS CIRCULARIS)
德国, Eichstätt, Solnhofen上侏罗纪(麻姆世)，1.45亿年80 x 54 厘米
附有世界知名的古生物学家Jakob Siber的书面专家意见，他是瑞士Aathal恐龙博物馆的创始人。这个环角鱼(Gyrodus circularis)的化石大约有1.45亿年的历史。环角鱼也被称为月亮鱼或河豚牙鱼。这种动物的牙齿极其适合粉碎硬壳食物。因此，它能够轻松地破开贝壳、蜗牛和珊瑚。这块石板来自索尔恩霍芬(Solnhofen)周围采石场的著名化石发现，它是发现的最大的环角鱼(Gyrodus circularis)标本之一。由于现在几乎没有开采石灰岩，近年来只有少数标本被发现。这块化石的状况非常好，包含一个完整的骨架，所有的细节都可以识别。该化石发表在 K. A. Frickhingers 1994年的著作《Die Fossilien von Solnhofen》中。
CHF 90 000 / 120 000 | (€ 92 780 / 123 710)
Sold for CHF 104 000 (including buyer’s premium)
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