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LOT 2390
Natural History - Cut and Polished Fossil Ammonite
MIDDLE CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 150 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 - 3 1/8 in. (124 grams total, 77-81 mm).
Polished to reveal the distinctive structure of the Cleoniceras sp. chambers, some iridescence. [2, No Reserve]
Provenance
From Madagascar.
Collected 1930-1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R. Gledhill.
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