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LOT 2787
Natural History - Cut and Polished Fossil Ammonite
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 150 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 1/8 - 4 1/4 in. (269 grams total, 10.5-10.7 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.
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