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LOT 2530
Natural History - Cut and Polished Fossil Ammonite Halves
MIDDLE CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 150 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 5/8 - 3 1/2 in. (190 grams total, 87-90 mm).
Displaying the distinctive structure of the chambers of Cleoniceras sp. ammonite with some iridescence; chip to edge of one half. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Madagascar.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
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LOT 2530
Natural History - Cut and Polished Fossil Ammonite Halves
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Natural History - Fossilised Wood Slice Group
Triassic Period, 230 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising three polished slices. 470 grams total, 8.4-10 cm
Acquired 1950s-1960s. From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection. -
Natural History - Insects in Copal
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Displaying several insects together with other inclusions. 19 grams, 15.5 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Leg Bone Section
Cretaceous Period, 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
From the front leg of Deltadromeus agilis. 405 grams, 18 cm
From the Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa. From an old German paleontological collection.
Deltadromeus had extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur was an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus.
