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LOT 1996
Natural History - Cut and Polished Fossil Ammonite
JURASSIC PERIOD, 199-145 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 3/4 in. (405 grams total, 11.9 cm wide each).
A pair of cut and polished fossil ammonite halves, each displaying the gas chambers; possibly Cleoniceras sp. [2, No Reserve]
Provenance
From Madagascar.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
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