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LOT 2539
Fossil Prionolepis Fish
CRETACEOUS PRIOD, CIRCA 100 MILLION YEARS B.P.
8 5/8 in. (552 grams, 22 cm).
Middle-sized fish of slender shape, a pointed snout and a forked caudal fin; traces of its last meal, a whole fish, in its stomach.
ProvenanceFrom Lebanon.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 2539
Fossil Prionolepis Fish
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£150 (EUR 174; USD 203) +BP*
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Carboniferous Period, circa 3 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
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Fossil Harpes Trilobite in Matrix
Middle Devonian Period, circa 380 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
With an ovate cephalon and an outer bilaminar brim extending posteriorly to long genal prolongations. 475 grams, 99 mm
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.
