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LOT 2328
Fossil Italian Razor Fish on Matrix
PLIOCENE EPOCH, CIRCA 5.33-2.58 MILLION YEARS B.P.
6 1/2 in. (266 grams, 16.5 cm).
Smooth razorfish Centriscus strigatus on a rectangular matrix.
ProvenanceFrom Lebanon.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 2328
Fossil Italian Razor Fish on Matrix
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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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.
