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LOT 2485
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Bone and Tooth Collection
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 1/4 - 4 in. (1.85 kg total, 33-99 mm).
Comprising various bones and jaw fragments with partial teeth, a coprolite, and others, each with an inked collector's number. [16, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
FootnotesThe 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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LOT 2485
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Bone and Tooth Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 150 grams, 59 cm
Ex Ancient Art Shop, Windsor, UK, 1990s. Ex private West County, UK, collection.
The mammoth lineage branched from the Asian elephant around 6 million years ago, and later on, the Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, evolved in eastern Siberia. Woolly mammoths, being slightly smaller than living African elephants, were foragers and ate grass, as well as small, nutritious flowering plants that flourished in the environment where they lived. They may also have used their curved tusks to dig through snow and eat plants that other foragers were unable to reach. -
Large Agadir Ammonite Display with Cut Base
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-66 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
With a cut base and showing characteristic ribbing, possibly Calycoceras. 5.67 kg, 23.5 cm wide
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Fossil Shrimp Cluster
Late Cretaceous, circa 100.5-93.9 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Polygonal matrix with a number of shrimp fossils. 283 grams, 16.2 cm
From Lebanon. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
