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LOT 2449
Fossil Ammonite Nodule
LOWER JURASSIC PERIOD, TOARCIAN STAGE, CIRCA 180 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 7/8 in. (1.2 kg, 12.4 cm).
A spherical half of a nodule containing two Eleganticeras sp. specimens. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Yorkshire Coast.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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