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LOT 3236
Fluorite Mineral Collection
1 5/8 - 5 in. (1.34 kg total, 4.2-12.6 cm).
Group of mineral crystal clusters. [8, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Morocco, North Africa.
Property of a Bristol, UK, gentleman collector.
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LOT 3236
Fluorite Mineral Collection
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Dicranurus Fossil Trilobite in Matrix
Devonian Period, circa 444-439 million years B.P.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £15
Showing the pair of horn-like spines behind the glabellum, specific for Dicranurus monstrosus, an odontopleurid trilobite; restored. 579 grams, 11.3 cm
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Cut and Polished Cleoniceras Fossil Ammonite
Triassic-Jurassic Period, circa 251-174 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Cleoniceras sp. specimen cut in two halves and having the internal faces polished. 144 grams total, 86 mm each
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Liopleurodon Apex Marine Predator Fossil Vertebra
Middle Jurassic Period, circa 160 million years B.P.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
The vertebra with concave depressions on both faces, two pairs of small processes on the outer face and a pair of ventrolateral crests. 1.16 kg, 14.1 cm wide
From Farringdon Clay, Oxfordshire, UK. Property of a Bristol, UK, gentleman collector.
Liopleurodon is an extinct genus of pliosaurid plesiosaurs that could reach over 8 meters in length. It had two pairs of flippers, a short neck and a long head. Various studies have shown it to have been an ambush predator that fed on cephalopods, marine reptiles and fish.
