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Keichousaurus fossils
Middle Triassic age, Guanling Formation, Xingyi, Guizhou, China.
The matrix is a compacted mix of fine volcanic ash, silt and is intersected by natural calcite mineral formations.
Incredible detail - jet black bones.
Fossil has NO restoration, highlighting, paint, carving or any kind of enhancement - fossil has been fully tested for paint, highlighting, carving, resin, adhesives and all other known methods of artificially produced elements.
Colour variation amongst the bones are the result of fossilization & an artifact of preparation (method of removing matrix to expose bones) - THERE IS NO PAINT OR ENHANCEMENTS.
Testing conclusively proves the bones are genuine.
Matrix has ONE repair - the slate usually fractures on excavation - white lines are natural calcite mineral veining - the matrix has been tested & proves genuine.
The lighter areas of matrix are the result of exposing an underlying layer of matrix & is NOT of artificial material.
Reference to the holotype V952 (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoanthropolgy, Beijing, China) & other described specimens GXD7601,GXD7613, GXD7621, Guizhou Province Museum, China (ref; Functional Morphology & Ontogeny of Keichousaurus hui [Reptilia, Sauropterygia] K. Lin, O. Reippel 1998).
Price £229.99
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