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LOT 2252
Natural History - Cut and Polished Agate Crystal Geode Slice Group [6]
4 5/8 - 5 1/8 in. (625 grams total, 11.7-13 cm).
Comprising six polished slices showing attractive banding, some with the internal cavity filled with quartz crystals. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Brazil.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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LOT 2252
Natural History - Cut and Polished Agate Crystal Geode Slice Group [6]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
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Natural History - Boxed Fossil Perisphinctes Ammonite Group
Jurassic Period, circa 199-145 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising two large and one smaller Perisphinctids indogermanus ammonite. 369 grams total, 55-78 mm
From Madagascar. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Fossil Deltadromeus Theropod Dinosaur Vertebra
Cretaceous Period, circa 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
A vertebra with partial neural arch from the dinosaur Deltadromeus agilis. 364 grams, 12.2 cm
From the Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa. From an old German paleontological collection.
Deltadromeus meaning 'delta runner' has extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur is an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus. -
Natural History - Fossil Brittle Star
Middle Ordovician Period, circa 450 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Ophiuroidea sp. specimen on irregular matrix. 237 grams, 11 cm
From El Kaid Errami, Tafilalt, Morocco, North Africa. Acquired 1950s-1960s. From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.