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LOT 2545
Fossil Flexicalymene Trilobite
ORDOVICIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 510-445 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 5/8 in. (167 grams total, 68 mm each).
A specimen within its nodule. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 144 grams, 56 cm
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. 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. -
Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace String
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Restrung group of tubular and other types with large D-shaped tabular beads. 38.8 grams, 31.5 cm
London, UK, collection, 2000s. -
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Tooth Group
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising two teeth with some good enamel, one repaired. 54 grams total, 46 mm each
From Morocco, West Africa. Ex 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.
