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LOT 2560
Fossil Crinoid Plate
SILURIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 443-416 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 7/8 in. (347 grams, 12.3 cm).
Scyphocrinus elegans specimen on a tongue-shaped matrix. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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