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CROCODILE VERTEBRA WITH FACE CARVED INTO IT - PLI/ PLEISTOCENE, JAVA.
CROCODILE VERTEBRA WITH FACE CARVED INTO IT - PLI/ PLEISTOCENE, JAVA. CROCODILE VERTEBRA WITH FACE CARVED INTO IT - PLI/ PLEISTOCENE, JAVA. CROCODILE VERTEBRA WITH FACE CARVED INTO IT - PLI/ PLEISTOCENE, JAVA. CROCODILE VERTEBRA WITH FACE CARVED INTO IT - PLI/ PLEISTOCENE, JAVA.
 

CROCODILE VERTEBRA WITH FACE CARVED INTO IT - PLI/ PLEISTOCENE, JAVA.


Crocodylus porosus Schneider 1801.

Heavily mineralised fossilised vertebra from a saltwater crocodile. Some matrix still adhering in parts. On the undersurface of the centrum a rather primitive face has been carved into the bone. This I presume to be done in recent times rather than in antiquity. May reflect some indigenous religious belief or just done for the tourist trade 
Definitely unusual.

Plio /Pleistocene.
​​​​​​​Solo River Java, Indonesia.

Vertebra : 9.8 x 4.8 x 6.3 cm. 




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