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LOT 2549
Coloured Quartz Crystal Nodule
2 1/8 in. (104 grams total, 55-56 mm).
An opened nodule lined with dyed purple quartz crystals. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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Fossil Woolly Mammoth Vertebra
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Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Teeth
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Comprising two Mosasaur prognathodon sp. teeth set on individual composite matrices. 726 grams total, 10.6-11.8 cm
From Germany. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Mosasaurs (from the Greek for 'lizard') were aquatic dinosaurs which probably gave birth to live young.
