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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]
ProvenanceFrom 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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Ex West country, UK, collection, 2000s.
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 couldn't get to.
