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LOT 2433
Large Fossil Clavilithes Gastropod
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 40 MILLION YEARS B.P.
5 1/8 in. (180 grams, 13 cm).
Clavilithes macrospira; supplied in a cardboard specimen tray. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire, UK.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
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