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LOT 2824
Extinct Shark's Tooth Collection
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 58-36 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 7/8 - 3 3/4 in. (164 grams total, 47-97 mm).
Comprising a Megalodon tooth in matrix, Carcharocles megalodon with good enamel and serrations from Aurora, North Carolina, USA; Isurus hastalis from Tremblor Formation, Sharktooth Hill, Kern County, California, USA; specimens 135 and 137 from Striatolamia sp. from the Pungo River Formation, Aurora, North Carolina, USA; specimen 127: Otodus obliquus from Khourigha, Morocco, North Africa. [5, No Reserve]
Provenance
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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