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LOT 2163
Natural History - Boxed Historic Mica Mineral Specimen
1 7/8 in. (41 grams, 47 mm).
Comprising a cluster of grey and silver octahedral sheets, an old label on the underside. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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Natural History - Fossil Keichousaurus Marine Reptile Skeleton
Triassic Period, circa 250 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
Complete Keichousaurus hui skeleton on a rectangular matrix. 2.8 kg, 35.5 cm
From Xingyi, Guizhou, China. Acquired 1950s-1960s. From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.
Keichousaurus was a late Triassic marine reptile, and a member of the Pleurosaur family, and went extinct 250 million years ago during the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event. They were specialised fish eaters, and were highly unusual amongst marine reptiles in that they gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs. -
Natural History - Large Cut and Polished Septarian Egg Half
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
The attractive internal structure filled with yellow and brown aragonite crystals. 3.28 kg, 19.5 cm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Megalodon Giant Shark Fossil Tooth
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
From Carcharocles megalodon, displaying some very good polished tooth enamel. 90 grams, 74 mm
From Florida, USA. Collected between 1930 and 1960. From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
