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LOT 2362
Natural History - A Collection of Fossils
DEVONIAN TO JURASSIC PERIOD, CIRCA 417-145 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 - 6 1/8 in. (584 grams total, 7.4-15.5 cm).
Mixed group including Perisphinctids indogermanus ammonite, Goniatite and Orthoceras. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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Natural History - Fly in Baltic Amber
Oligocene Period, circa 55-50 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Polished to highlight the Diptera sp. fly inclusion. 1.6 grams, 26 mm
From Primorskoje mine, Yantarnyi, Kaliningrad. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. Accompanied by an illustrated identification card. -
Natural History - Large Size Cut and Polished Malawi Agate Crystal Geode Pair
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising a boulder cut in two halves exposing the internal red and orange banding and a cavity of quartz crystals. 953 grams total, 10.9-11 cm
From Malawi, Africa. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Fossil Claudiosaurus Skeleton
Late Permian-early Triassic Period, circa 252-250 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
On a rounded matrix. 8.85 kg, 32.5 cm
From Madagascar. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Claudiosaurus is an extinct genus of diapsid reptiles from the Late Permian Sakamena Formation of the Morondava Basin, Madagascar. It is theorised that this was a semi-aquatic, lizard-like dinosaur.
