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LOT 2156
Natural History - Cut and Polished Fossil Ammonite
MIDDLE CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 150 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 3/8 in. (145 grams total, 86-87 mm).
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.
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