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LOT 3016
Ice Age Horse Fossil Leg Bone
PLEISTOCENE EPOCH, CIRCA 2.6 MILLION-11,700 YEARS B.P.
15 1/2 in. (1.06 kg total, 39.5 cm high including stand).
Display of the lower leg bones comprising the coffin bone, middle and proximal phalanx and the cannon bone; accompanied by a custom-made display stand with an information sticker.
ProvenanceEx Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
FootnotesIce Age horses were smaller than their modern relatives and were well-adapted to the harsh cold climate, resembling the modern Przewalski's horses.
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LOT 3016
Ice Age Horse Fossil Leg Bone
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£100 (EUR 116; USD 135) +BP*
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Three North American Knightia Fossil Fish
Eocene Period, 58-36 million years B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising three oval matrices with Knightia alta specimens, the largest with two overlapping fish. 148 grams total, 71-85 mm
From Green River formation, Wyoming, USA. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
In southwest Wyoming (and parts of Colorado and Utah), in the Green River Formation, are found some of the world's most outstanding specimens of fossil fish. The Green River system was composed of three lakes: Lake Uinta, Lake Gosiute and Fossil Lake. These Eocene lakes lay in a series of intermountain basins formed by geological events that uplifted the Rocky Mountains during the early Tertiary period. The climate was much different from the desert-like climate of this area today. Both the fauna (crocodiles, alligators, boa constrictors and some subtropical fish families) and the flora (such as large palm trees) indicate a climate much like that found along the Gulf Coast today. Large amounts of ash found in the sediments indicate that volcanoes were particularly active at this time. -
Javanese Fossil Wood Specimen
Pliocene Period, circa 2 million years B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Freestanding display of fossilised wood, polished to enhance the attractive graining in contrasting colours. 7 kg, 29 cm
From Java, Indonesia. Property of a Bristol, UK, gentleman collector. -
Liopleurodon Apex Marine Predator Fossil Vertebra
Middle Jurassic Period, circa 160 million years B.P.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
The vertebra with concave depressions on both faces, two pairs of small processes on the outer face and a pair of ventrolateral crests. 1.16 kg, 14.1 cm wide
From Farringdon Clay, Oxfordshire, UK. Property of a Bristol, UK, gentleman collector.
Liopleurodon is an extinct genus of pliosaurid plesiosaurs that could reach over 8 meters in length. It had two pairs of flippers, a short neck and a long head. Various studies have shown it to have been an ambush predator that fed on cephalopods, marine reptiles and fish.
