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LOT 2368
Large Spinosaurus Fossil Dinosaur Tooth Group
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 125-113 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 1/8 in. (58 grams total, 79-80 mm).
Comprising two Spinosaurus maroccanus teeth, one with with some root, each in a card collector's tray. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
The Spinosaurus was both a beachcomber type scavenger and an active hunter taking small stranded Plesiosaurs, Pterosaurs, turtles and large fish.
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Historic Calcite Mineral Specimen
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Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Tooth with Root
Cretaceous Period, 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Showing good enamel and some root. 60.3 grams, 82 mm
From Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile dinosaur with an elongated body, long snout and paddle-like limbs. Found worldwide, they competed with other well-known sea predators of the Late Cretaceous, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, for food, existing primarily on a diet of ammonoids, cuttlefish and fish. -
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Woolly Rhinoceros Fossil Vertebra
Pleistocene Period, circa 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
With neural arch, from the woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis. 305 grams, 11.8 cm
Fine condition.
From Brown Bank, Dogger beds, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK. Collected between 1930 and 1960. From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
