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LOT 2460
Fossil Megalodon Giant Shark Tooth
PLIOCENE EPOCH, CIRCA 5.6 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 in. (126 grams, 10 cm).
A Carcharocles megalodon shark tooth, with serrations and polished tooth enamel. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of an Essex gallery.
FootnotesCarcharodon megalodon is regarded as one of the largest and most powerful marine predators in vertebrate history and likely had a profound impact on the structuring of the marine communities. Fossil remains indicate that this giant shark reached a length of more than 16 metres (52 ft) and also affirm that it had a cosmopolitan distribution. Scientists suggest that in life it looked like a stockier version of the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
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Campo del Cielo Meteorite Necklace
Fell 6000-5000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
A nickel-iron meteorite (IAB) with a suspension loop and cord for wearing. 6.68 grams, Meteorite: 22 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
A crater field of roughly 26 craters was found in the vicinity of this crater, which is estimated to date to 4-5 thousand years BP. The age of the meteorite itself is thought to be c.4.5 billion years, formed as part of the development of this solar system. The largest two fragments, the 30.8-ton Gancedo and 28.8-ton El Chaco, are among the heaviest meteorite masses ever recovered on Earth. In 1576, the governor of a province in Northern Argentina commissioned the military to search for a large mass of iron, which it was believed the local people claimed had fallen from the sky and which they used for their weapon production. The expedition discovered a large mass of metal, which was assumed to be an iron mine, and brought back a few samples, which were described as being of unusual purity. Following the legends, in 1774, Don Bartolomé Francisco de Maguna rediscovered the iron mass. He himself did not believe that the stone had fallen from the sky and assumed that it had formed by a volcanic eruption. However, he sent the samples to the Royal Society of London. In 199,0 it became protected by law. -
Fossil Tyrannosarus Rex Dinosaur Coprolite
Late Cretaceous Period, circa 70-66.5 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
An irregular mass of fossilised dung. 105 grams, 67 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Fossil Dicranurus Monstrosus Trilobite
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Showing the pair of horn-like spines behind the glabellum, specific for Dicranurus monstrosus odontopleurid trilobites; some restoration. 522 grams, 16.2 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
