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LOT 2902
Large Slab with Fossil Shells
MIOCENE PERIOD, 23-5.3 MILLION YEARS B.P.
13 5/8 in. (5.8 kg, 34.5 cm).
A sizeable matrix containing a large number of fossilised shells. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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Massive Cave Stalagmite Section
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
A colossal cut section of cream-coloured stalagmite showing natural ripples. 76 kg, 105 cm
Previously from a Hong Kong collection. Ex property of a London, UK, gentleman, 1990s.
A stalagmite is an upward-growing mound of mineral deposits growing on the floor of a cave due to the accumulation of material deposited from ceiling drippings. They are typically formed by the deposition of calcium carbonate and other minerals, which are precipitated from mineralised water solutions. Limestone is the chief form of calcium carbonate rock, which is dissolved by water that contains carbon dioxide, forming a calcium bicarbonate solution in underground caverns. -
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A Group of Ninety Two [92] Fossil Wood Specimens
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
A boxed group of fossilised tree branch specimens, most showing bark detailing on the outside. 2.59 kg total including box, 24-57 mm
From Madagascar. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Bifacial Partial Fossil Ichthyosaur Jaw
Mesozoic-Jurassic Period, circa 250-90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
Showing multiple sharp teeth and a section of well-formed, slender jaws. 270 grams, 10.6 cm
Discovered at Lyme Regis, UK, during the time of Mary Anning and her family. From an old English collection. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985. With an original early 19th-century handwritten identification label ‘Nose of a Saurian’, the original discovery of this fossil can be dated to the period 1800-1830.
Originally, ichthyosaur fossils were misidentified as ‘Saurian’ - being either lizards or forms of crocodile. The term 'Ichthyosaur' was first used in 1817 by the German naturalist Karl Dietrich Eberhard Konig, and he did not publish the name until 1825. By the 1830’s, the name Ichthyosaur was widely used. Having been discovered in Lyme Regis, this dates the discovery of the fossil to the ‘Golden Age’ of fossil hunting in the early 1800s (before the use of the name ‘ichthyosaur’) made especially famous by Mary Anning and her family, who collected fossils from the coast around Lyme Regis and who sold specimens, for additional income, to tourists as well as leading naturalists and fossil collectors from around the world.
