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LOT 2373
Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Tooth Pair
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 in. (74 grams total, 75-78 mm).
Comprising two teeth showing good brown enamel, repaired. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
FootnotesThe Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile dinosaur with an elongated body, long snout and paddle-like limbs. Found worldwide, they competed with other well-known sea predators of the Late Cretaceous, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, for food, existing primarily on a diet of ammonoids, cuttlefish and fish.
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LOT 2373
Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Tooth Pair
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Campo del Cielo Meteorite Necklace
Fell 6000-5000 years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
A nickel-iron meteorite (IAB) with a suspension loop and cord for wearing. 6.21 grams, pendant: 28 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, 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. -
Natural Gold Specimen Group
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising a quantity of small specimens in a display box. 8.67 grams total, 58 x 38 mm including box
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Restrung, using recently polished oblate Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 140 grams, 59 cm
From a UK collection formed in the early 2000s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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 were unable to reach.
