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Cyber-Sales Wednesday: Windsor Dinosaur Tracks
A 200-million-year-old piece of the Farmington is up for grabs on eBay.
As Connecticut's first town, Windsor is rich in history. But one company has any interesting fact concerning the town's founding beat by a couple hundred-million years.
Greenfield, MA-based Treasure Mountain Mining specializes in the sale of crystals and minerals that they dig up from sites across the nation.
One of their current items on eBay is particularly interesting to Windsor residents, and lovers of all things prehistoric.
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For a buy-it-now price of $650, buyers can own a 200-million-year-old rock from the Farmington River in Windsor with three fossilized dinosaur footprints in it.
The footprints, according to Treasure Mountain Mining, are from a Triassic period, two-footed theropod — Ceolophysis.
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The fossil specimen is the size of a "large cabinet," according to the item description on eBay.
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