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LOT 2334
Natural History - Cut and Polished Fossil Ammonite Pair
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 113-100 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 3/4 in. (124 grams total, 69 mm each).
Comprising a polished Cleoniceras sp. ammonite cut into halves and showing the internal crystallisation of the gas chambers. [2, No Reserve]
Provenance
From Madagascar.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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