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LOT 2848
Mesoproterozoic 'String of Beads' Fossil
BACKDOOR FORMATION, CIRCA 1.4 BILLION YEARS B.P.
3 1/8 in. (174 grams, 79 mm).
Showing a number of Horodyskia williamsii macrofossil imprints; information sticker to reverse with inked collector's note 'Pingandy Station'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Pingandy Station, Western Australia.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
Footnotes
Previously described informally as a ‘string of beads’, assigned to the genus Horodyskia, and is considered one of the oldest known eukaryotes.
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