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LOT 3292
Fossil Crinoid Plate
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 444-439 MILLION YEARS B.P.
8 5/8 in. (985 grams, 22 cm).
Scyphocrinites elegans sea lily on a tongue-shaped matrix showing very good detail. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 3292
Fossil Crinoid Plate
Estimate £60 - 80€70 - 93 (for guidance only)$81 - 108 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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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 exhibiting brown patina, repaired. 60 grams total, 47-50 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile 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. -
Fossil Goniatite Polished Rectangular Trinket Box
Upper Devonian Period, circa 385-359 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Rectangular lidded box carved from fossiliferous stone with Orthoceras fossils, a goniatite set on the lid. 664 grams, 12.8 x 8 cm
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Mizoram Burmese Amber Bead Necklace with Natural Inclusions
Cretaceous Period, circa 99 million years B.P.Estimate: £450 - 650 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £350
Restrung necklace of dark honey-coloured beads of cylindrical and annular shape formed by hand, containing various organic inclusions. 54 grams, 82 cm
From the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. Acquired in Assam in the 1980s. From the private collection of a Somerset gentleman. Accompanied by a copy of a letter from Dr Andrew J. Ross FRES, of the National Museum of Scotland, concerning testing carried out on the necklace.
Dr Ross states: 'The internal fractures and flow planes are consistent with what you see in amber, and although it does not contain any identifiable insect inclusions, the organic fragments that are present and the general colours appear consistent with Burmese amber.'
