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LOT 2509
Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Tooth and Fish Bones
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 1/4 in. (139 grams, 83 mm).
The matrix containing a single Mosasaur prognathodon tooth and several fossilised fish bones. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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