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LOT 2545
Cut and Polished Fossil Seed in Nodule
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 58-36 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 3/4 in. (370 grams total, 94 mm each).
The seed cut in half through the middle, exposing the internal structure. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom London Clay, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, UK.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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Polished Fossil Orthoceras Specimen Collection
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising four polished specimens showing partial Orthoceras specimens. 456 grams total, 8.4-11.5 cm
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Diplomystus Fossil Fish
Cretaceous Period, circa 70 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Rectangular matrix with a single Diplomystus birdi specimen. 226 grams, 10.3 cm
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Restrung, using recently polished oblate Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 146 grams total, 57 cm
From a UK collection formed in the early 2000s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
The mammoth lineage branched from the Asian elephant around 6 million years ago, and later on the Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, evolved in eastern Siberia. Woolly mammoths, being slightly smaller than living African elephants, were foragers and ate grass, as well as small, nutritious flowering plants that flourished in the environment where they lived. They may also have used their curved tusks to dig through snow and eat plants that other foragers were unable to reach.
