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LOT 2528
Fossil Astrotheca and Neuropteris Ferns in Split Nodules
CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD, CIRCA 358-298 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 - 4 1/8 in. (366 grams total, 10-10.7 cm).
Comprising two opened nodules showing the positive and negative of the fern fossil. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Pennsylvanian Mazon Creek, Braidwood, Illinois, USA.
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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LOT 2528
Fossil Astrotheca and Neuropteris Ferns in Split Nodules
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
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Fossil Insects in Matrix Collection
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising three insects, two smaller and one larger, with long wings. 93 grams total, 39-70 mm
From Brazil. 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. -
Fossil Asaphus Trilobite in Matrix
Middle Ordovician, circa 470-458 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Asaphus plautini with a semicircular headshield and tailshield separated by well-defined ribs. 140 grams, 76 mm
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. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Restrung, using recently polished oblate Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 126 grams, 59 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.
