Mirabilia Naturalia

A large blue emperor butterfly within a glass bubble.

W. 20 - D. 20 - H. 34 Cm

Papilio Blumei is a diurnal butterfly with green wings shifting into blue on the tips. On a brass and marble base.

W. 20 - D. 20 - H. 34 Cm

Known for its massive thoracic and posterior horns. This display shows the insect's body separated into individual parts using pieces of brass.

W. 14 - D. 14 - H. 37 Cm

W. 22 - D. 8 - H. 46,5 Cm

Nine Morpho Zephiris butterflies within a globe. This lepidopter belongs to the Nymphalidae family. The dorsal area of the Menelaus butterfly is a bright metallic blue edged with black while the ventral area is brown with round eyespots.

W. 17 - D. 17 - H. 49 Cm

A glass case with eight butterflies known as "big-eyed butterfly" due to the shapes on its wings.

W. 24 - D. 24 - H. 41,5 Cm

Sphaerotheriida is a species of millipedes that rolls up into a perfect ball in order to protect itself. This display shows the seven phases in which its movement unfolds.

W. 21,5 - D. 14 - H. 16 Cm

Twelve Ornithoptera butterflies in a globe. Ornithoptera is the largest diurnal butterfly in the world. It is only found on some minor islands in the Pacific Ocean, it is a protected species and subject to CITES.

W. 23 - D. 23 - H. 56 Cm

A Parnassius butterfly in Lasa marble on black granite.

W. 15,5 - D. 0,5 - H. 15,5 Cm

A monarch butterfly in obsidian from Sardinia, yellow jade, dolomite, on black granite

W. 16 - D. 1 - H. 16 Cm

The decor is made up of Acanthus leaves and peony flowers and it is sitting on three Thai scorpions. Glass case on a black durmast base.

W. 25 - D. 25 - H. 39 Cm

Chamaeleo calyptratus, the veiled chameleon's colours can change, but the males are mostly green. Accompanied by CITES certificate.

W. 12 - D. 12 - H. 42 Cm

A sculpture of a crocodile skull, burnished bronze on a base

W. 52 - D. 19 - H. 25 Cm

Pogona vitticeps, a bearded dragon from the Agamide family that inhabits the arid regions of Australia, on a wood branch.

W. 66 - D. 43 - H. 41 Cm

Nasal bone and teeth from a common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) on a bronze base.

W. 23 - D. 15 - H. 37,5 Cm

Hippopotamus amphibiuscites Hippopotamus teeth on a wooden base Cites II/B, CITES permit 8/01/2016

W. 20 - H. 32 cm

A tibia from an Aepyornis maximus on a metal base. Pleistocene

H. 55 Cm

Bovine horns from the late Pleistocene, found on the deposits of the river Dnieper.

W. 64 - D. 30 - H. 24 Cm

A rare prehistoric elephant from the Miocene (around 15 MA). H 90 cm and 92 cm

W. 32 - D. 14 - H. 92 Cm

Bubalus paleokarabau, a herbivore mammal from the bovine sub-family. Late Pleistocene.

W. 172 - H. 110 Cm

Coleodonta antiquitatis. A fossile skull with resin horns (the corneous material does not fossilise in these deposits).

W. 70 - D. 31 - H. 123 Cm

A scapula from a Mammuthus Primigenius (Pleistocene).

W. 68 - D. 30 - H. 83 Cm

A fossile of a Syberian wooly mammoth ivory tusk, high quality, on a wooden base

W. 120 - D. 44 - H. 84 Cm

Carcharocles Megalodon, big-toothed shark. Miocene, on a metal base

W. 9 - H. 14 Cm

Carcharocles megalodon, a large shark whose scientific name means "big tooth" in ancient Greek. Miocene, on a metal base.

W. 8 - H. 14 Cm

Rare Indonesian ammonites, an extint genus of ammonite cephalopods. Triassic period

Gigantopecten is a genus of fossil scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. From the Oligocene period.

W. 23 - D. 19 - H. 12 Cm

Emericiceras is an ammonite genus from the Early Cretaceous belonging to the Ancyloceratoidea. Albian, Cretacic

W. 28 - D. 21 - H. 21 Cm

Plesiospitidiscus ligatus (centre) and Olcostephanus sayni Hauterivian (around 120 Ma)

W. 12 - D. 24 - H. 36 Cm

Fossile fern of the Callipteridium Mansfieldi genus, very rare, especially in this size and quality. Late Carboniferous (305-299 Ma)

W. 40 - D. 4 - H. 110 Cm

Gigantopecten is a genus of fossil scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. Oligocene period.

W. 40 - D. 12 - H. 44 Cm

A large sectioned ammonite, excellent-quality mineralisation.

W. 30 - H. 38 Cm

Placenticeras sp. from the Bearpaw Formation, Campanian, Late Cretaceous (83.5-72 MA) The fossils of Placenticeras ammonites that were found in the fossiliferous sands of Canadian Alberta are considered to be among the most precious in the world due [..]

W. 30 - H. 24 Cm

Odontopteris, late Carboniferous (305-299 MA)

W. 72 - D. 6 - H. 93 Cm

Gigantopecten is a genus of fossil scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. Oligocene period.

W. 50 - H. 47 Cm

Halisaurus sp. Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian (around 70 MA) A specimen of Mosasaur, a marine predator from the golden age of dinosaurs

W. 264 - D. 112 - H. 30 Cm

Scyphocrinites sp. An extinct echinoderm belonging to the crinoids. Mounted in three dimensions on a metal stand. Early Devonian (416-397 MA)

H. 1811 Cm

Rhinobatos, a species of rayfish that belongs to the group of myliobatiformes cartilaginous fish. Late Cretaceous (around 94 MA)

W. 86 - D. 3 - H. 53 Cm

Seirocrinus subangularis Pliensbachiano-Toarciano (182.7-174 Ma), Early Jurassic (182.7– 199.3 ma) – Posidonia Shale Formation. Private collection from Germany. Metal frame, rear structure ready for wall mounting.

W. 80 - H. 150 Cm

Libanopristis Late Cretaceous (around 94 MA) Metal case with LED lighting. One of the most complete species of Sclerorhynchoidei.

W. 24 - D. 15 - H. 55 Cm

Puziosa sp. Late Cretaceous, extinct cephalopod mollusks of the ammonite genus.

W. 46 - D. 40 - H. 8 Cm

Albian, Cretaceous

W. 24 - D. 22 - H. 54 Cm

W. 47 - D. 9 - H. 40 Cm

Enormous predator fish that used to live in the Interior Seaway that covered most of the United States during the Cretaceous period. Interesting preparation in three dimensions

W. 70 - D. 52 - H. 37 Cm

Goniatites and Orthoceras Silurian-Devonian (440-360 MA) Erfoud, Morocco

W. 156 - D. 102 - H. 30 cm

A beautiful ammonite from the Late Devonian (385-359 MA). Metal base

W. 33 - D. 30 - H. 7 Cm

Perisphinctes (Kranosphinctes) sp. Late Jurassic, Oxfordian (161-156 ma)

W. 34 - D. 34 - H. 18 Cm

Fossil of a predator from the late Cretaceous (Santonian-Campanian)

W. 199 - D. 70 - H. 5 Cm

Araripichthys, an extinct bony fish, from the Teleostei infraclass, in a metal frame.

W. 66 - D. 4 - H. 83 Cm

Mioplosus, an extinct percid bony fish that lived in the middle Eocene

W. 48,5 - D. 2,5 - H. 32 Cm

An extinct aspidorhynchus, a fast predator from the Titonian, Jurassic.

W. 75 - D. 38 - H. 7 Cm

Two sections of fossilised palm wood on metal bases.

H. 42 Cm

W. 54 - D. 48 - H. 1 Cm

Fossilised bark from a Glyptostrobus Europeus of the Oligocene period.

kg 94

Fossilised Araucaria wood

W. 9 - H. 13 cm

Araucaria, genus in the Araucariaceae family that includes several species of evergreen gymnosperm trees of the Southern hemisphere. This specimen is a vertical fossil from the Triassic period (around 220 MA)

kg 35 W. 38 - D. 7 - H. 103 Cm

Fossilised wood on metal bases, varying in size: 55x25x121cm and 60x20x124cm

The tabletop is made in limestone from the Green River Formation, Wyoming, with a real fossilised fish. Varnished metal base.

W. 92 - D. 45 - H. 46 Cm

The tabletop is made in limestone from the Green River Formation, Wyoming, with real fossilised fish. Varnished metal base.

W. 81 - D. 56 - H. 45 Cm

Red varnished wood

W. 45 - H. 77 cm