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LOT 2351
Natural History - Cut and Polished Fossil Ammonite
MIDDLE CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 150 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 - 3 1/4 in. (136 grams total, 76-82 mm).
Showing the distinctive pattern of the cross-section chambers, Cleoniceras sp. [2, No Reserve]
Provenance
Collected 1930-1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
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