Natural History - Cut and Polished Fossil Ammonite

MIDDLE CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 150 MILLION YEARS B.P.

4 5/8 in. (865 grams total, 11.7 cm each).

Ceratites sp., polished through parts of the shell to reveal some of the calcite preserved inside showing the dividing gas chambers known as sutures. [2, No Reserve]

Provenance

From Timor, Indonesia.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.

CONDITION

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LOT 2416