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LOT 2827
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Teeth in Composite Matrix
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
7 1/2 in. (1.59 kg, 19 cm).
Comprising six Mosasaur prognathodon teeth set on a composite matrix. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Germany.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Mosasaurs (from the Greek for 'lizard') were aquatic dinosaurs which probably gave birth to live young.
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LOT 2827
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Teeth in Composite Matrix
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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Meteoritic Tektite Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A cigar-shaped specimen with dimpled surface. 12.3 grams, 68 mm
From South East Asia. Acquired from Organica Gems. 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.
Tektites are lumps of black or dark grey natural glass produced from melted crustal rocks that are caused by large hypervelocity meteorite impacts on sediments.
