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LOT 3153
Fossil Goniatite Polished Triangular Trinket Box
UPPER DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 385-359 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 7/8 in. (515 grams, 12.5 cm).
Lidded box carved from fossiliferous stone with a goniatite set on the lid. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 3153
Fossil Goniatite Polished Triangular Trinket Box
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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Large Carved and Polished Oval Onyx Dish
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Shallow oval dish showing contrasting colours. 1.68 kg, 30 cm
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Cornuproetus Fossil Trilobite
Devonian Period, circa 390-360 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Showing two elongated genals protruding from its cephalon. 114 grams, 60 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
North American Diplomystus Fossil Fish
Eocene Period, 58-36 million years B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Rectangular matrix with a good-sized Diplomystus specimen; some restoration. 336 grams, 18.3 cm
From Green River formation, Wyoming, USA. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
In southwest Wyoming (and parts of Colorado and Utah), in the Green River Formation, are found some of the world's most outstanding specimens of fossil fish. The Green River system was composed of three lakes: Lake Uinta, Lake Gosiute and Fossil Lake. These Eocene lakes lay in a series of intermountain basins formed by geological events that uplifted the Rocky Mountains during the early Tertiary period. The climate was much different from the desert-like climate of this area today. Both the fauna (crocodiles, alligators, boa constrictors and some subtropical fish families) and the flora (such as large palm trees) indicate a climate much like that found along the Gulf Coast today. Large amounts of ash found in the sediments indicate that volcanoes were particularly active at this time.
