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LOT 2845
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Group
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 90 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 3/8 - 3 1/2 in. (295 grams total, 86-90 mm).
Comprising a clavicle bone section and a front leg bone section from Deltadromeus agilis. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco.
From an old German paleontological collection.
Deltadromeus had extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur was an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus.
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LOT 2845
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Natural History - Historic 'Kop Krom Mine, Kop Daglari, Turkey' Kammererite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Featuring small crystals on a dark grey matrix, collection number 547; purchased for £32.00 from Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd, in the 1980s, with an old label. 75.2 grams, 47 mm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Jaw on Composite Matrix
Cretaceous Period, 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
A large section of Mosasaur prognathodon jaw with eight teeth, set in a composite matrix with applied plaster reinforcement. 2.32 kg, 48 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile dinosaur with a snake-like body, long snout and paddle-like limbs. found worldwide, they competed with other well-known sea predators of the Late Cretaceous, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, for food, existing primarily on a diet of ammonoids, cuttlefish and fish. -
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Natural History - Fossil Scutellum Trilobite
Upper Devonian Period, 385-359 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
A Scutellum sp. trilobite from the family Styginidae on a matrix. 222 grams, 77 mm
From the Atlas Mountains, Hamar Laghdad Formation, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
