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LOT 2516
Fossil Lituites on Matrix
ORDOVICIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 450 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 7/8 in. (204 grams, 99 mm).
Displaying planospirally coiled juvenile portion at the apex and a part of the long, expanding orthoconic adult section with a subdorsal siphuncle connecting the chambers. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From China.
Acquired at the Kidlington Mineral and Fossil Show, Oxfordshire, UK, in 2016.
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.
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