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LOT 3235
Fossil Brittle Star on Matrix
ORDOVICIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 485-443 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 1/2 in. (40 grams, 11.6 cm).
An irregular matrix with a partial Ophiuroidea sp. specimen. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 3235
Fossil Brittle Star on Matrix
Estimate £30 - 40€35 - 46 (for guidance only)$41 - 54 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Polished Amethyst Crystal Display with Calcite
Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £750
A free-standing polished geode section lined with dark purple amethyst crystals, calcite with small black crystals to one side. 12 kg, 35.5 cm
From Artigas, Uruguay. Property of a London lady. -
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. -
Two Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Teeth
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
From Mosasaur prognathodon showing dark brown enamel, repaired. 76 grams total, 50-52 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile dinosaur with an elongated body, long snout and paddle-like limbs. Found worldwide, they competed with other well-known sea predators of the Late Cretaceous, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, for food, existing primarily on a diet of ammonoids, cuttlefish and fish.
