Dinosaur bone sphere, keenly priced at 0.37pence per gram, a heavy 405 gram polished dinosaur bone sphere.

A beautiful sphere made by carving a real dinosaur bone, the colossal Atlasaurus.
An example is characterised by a pattern in which colours range from grey/brown to orange.

The bone structure throughout the sphere resembles the system's channels and passages. Thus, the blood & vascular systems are an excellent study piece.

Atlasaurus - AT-lush-SAWR-us - Atlas - the Titan who held up the heavens, according to Greek mythology + Greek sauros meaning "lizard") It was a moderately large genus of sauropod dinosaur from Middle Jurassic (Bathonian to Callovian stages) beds in North Africa.


Atlasaurus was discovered by Monbaron, Russell & Taquet in 1999. It was named after the site of discovery in the High Atlas of Morocco (where the Titan Atlas was said to hold up the heavens) and for the animal's gigantic size (approximately 15 m (50 ft) long). It is known from a nearly complete skeleton, including a skull, found at Wawmda in the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian-Callovian) Tiougguit Formation, Azilal Province, Tadla-Azilal region, Morocco.


The Atlasaurus is a dinosaur whose skeleton is nearly complete and was found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The name comes from the discovery site and the animal's size, which reaches 15 metres; it lived during the Jurassic period, between the Bathonian and the Callovian stages.

Diameter: 6 cm/60mm
Circumference: 21 cm/210mm
Era: Jurassic Period, Bathonian and the Callovian stages (about 164 – 168 million years ago).
Origin: Atlas Range, Morocco.

Weight: 405 grams