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LOT 2455
Natural History - Crinoid Fossil Display Plate
SILURIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 443-416 MILLION YEARS B.P.
6 5/8 in. (658 grams, 17 cm).
Presenting a fossil crinoid in a matrix, possibly Scyphocrinus sp., with the remain of another on the reverse. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Morocco, North Africa.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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