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LOT 0386
Natural History - British Fossil Aspidoceras Ammonite Display with Incredible Spines
JURASSIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200 MILLION YEARS B.P.
10 1/2 in. (5.5 kg, 27 cm).
Comprising an excessively large and rare specimen of Aspidoceras Logispinum, displaying superb lateral spines or tubercles; developed from the grey lias matrix.
Provenance
From North Yorkshire, UK.
Literature
See Sepkoski, Jack, A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 2002, pp.1-560, for discussion.
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LOT 0386
Natural History - British Fossil Aspidoceras Ammonite Display with Incredible Spines
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000€3,480 - 4,640 (for guidance only)$4,050 - 5,400 (for guidance only)
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