Natural History - Cut and Polished Fossil Ammonite

MIDDLE CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 150 MILLION YEARS B.P.

4 3/8 - 4 1/2 in. (296 grams total, 11.2 - 11.5 cm).

Cleoniceras sp. displaying the distinctive pattern of the cross-section chambers. [2, No Reserve]

Provenance

From Madagascar.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.

CONDITION

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LOT 2230