Lot 12
FOSSIL OF AN EARLY AMPHIBIAN, DISCOSAURISCUS PULCHERRIMUS
CZECHIA, LOWER PERMIAN, C. 290 MILLION YEARS B.P.
Auction: 26 November 2026 from 14:00 GMT
Description
a finely preserved specimen of the early amphibian Discosauriscus pulcherrimus
Dimensions
22cm width
Footnote
Discosauriscus was a small, extinct tetrapod that lived during the Early Permian, approximately 290 million years ago in what is now Central Europe. Its remains are known from freshwater lake deposits and include skulls and partial examples to relatively complete skeletons such as the present example. The species predates the earliest known dinosaurs by more than fifty million years, having lived during the Early Permian, long before the emergence of dinosaurs in the Late Triassic.