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LOT 2751
Fossil Trilobite in Matrix
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 1/4 in. (247 grams, 82 mm).
Possibly Ceratarges sp. showing long curving spines. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.
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.
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