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LOT 2389
Fossil Hollardops Trilobite on Matrix
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 400 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 3/4 in. (278 grams, 95 mm).
Showing good detail to the body and spines, on a matrix. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Morocco.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Tooth Group
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising three Mosasaur Prognathodon teeth, each showing good enamel. 60 grams total, 46-65 mm
From Ouled Abdoun Basin, Morocco, West Africa. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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.
