Natural History - Cut Fossil Ammonite Halves

MIDDLE CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 150 MILLION YEARS B.P.

3 1/2 in. (155 grams total, 88-89 mm).

Polished to reveal the distinctive structure of the chambers of Cleoniceras sp. ammonite with some iridescence; chip to edge of one half. [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 2462