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LOT 2640
Fossil Woolly Rhinoceros Vertebra
PLEISTOCENE EPOCH, CIRCA 50,000-20,000 YEARS B.P.
4 in. (330 grams, 10 cm).
A Coelodonta antiquitatis woolly rhinoceros vertebra. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceBrown Bank, Dogger beds, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
Property of a Cheshire, UK, gentleman.
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