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LOT 2407
Fossil Sapindopsis Plant Leaf
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 145-66 MILLION YEARS B.P.
8 x 5 3/4 in. (521 grams, 20.5 x 14.6 cm).
Comprising three joined leaves from an extinct genus Sapindopsis, related the to modern Platanaceae family. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Lebanon.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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