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LOT 2071
Natural History - Complete Fossil Ammonite
JURASSIC PERIOD, 199-145 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 in. (120 grams, 76 mm).
Perisphinctes sp. with much of the original shell material remaining, in old white card tray with old label reading: 'AMMONITE Perisphinctes sp., Mid Jurassic Age (approx. 170 million years old), Madagascar'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Madagascar.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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