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LOT 2462
Fossil Knightia Alta Fish Group
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 56-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 in. (49 grams, 77 mm).
Comprising two Knightia alta fish on a rounded matrix. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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