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LOT 2523
Natural History - A Collection of Natural History Items
1 3/8 - 4 5/8 in. (245 grams total, 3.5-11.7 cm).
Including the skull and mandible of a primate, a scorpion in perspex matrix and various shells. [6, 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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LOT 2523
Natural History - A Collection of Natural History Items
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
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Natural History - Fossil Bird Bone Group
Pleistocene Period, circa 2 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising two large fragments of hollow wading bird bones. 12.3 grams total, 75-79 mm
From the Rancho La Brea Formation, Maricopa Co., California, USA. Acquired 1950s-1960s. From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection. -
Natural History - Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Vertebra, Ribs and Jaw
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
Comprising various bone and rib fragments, a large vertebra and jaw fragments with teeth from Mosasaur prognathodon sp.; on a sandstone matrix with applied plaster reinforcement to allow it to be displayed. 12.8 kg, 46 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile dinosaur with a snake-like 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. -
Natural History - Fossil Hamatolenus Trilobite
Cambrian Period, circa 500 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
On a matrix, possibly Hamatolenus vincenti. 407 grams, 92 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
