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LOT 2404
Large Woolly Rhinocerous Leg Bone
PLEISTOCENE EPOCH, DEVENSIAN AGE, CIRCA 110,000-12,000 YEARS B.P.
14 1/4 in. (1.62 kg, 36 cm).
A near-complete tibia of Coelodonta antiquitatis. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the North Sea, UK.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
Woolly rhinoceros is an extinct species of large rhinoceros that inhabited northern Eurasia and was adapted to living in the extreme cold weather of the steppe.
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From a UK collection formed in the early 2000s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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