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LOT 0396
Natural History - Exceptional British Phylloceras Fossil Ammonite
LOWER JURASSIC, TOARCIAN STAGE, CIRCA 200-190 MILLION YEARS B.P.
8 in. (5.5 kg, 20 cm).
Phylloceras heterophyllum displayed in a freestanding matrix, displaying sutures.
ProvenanceFrom the Holderness Coast, Yorkshire, UK.
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LOT 0396
Natural History - Exceptional British Phylloceras Fossil Ammonite
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
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Natural History - Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Devensian Period, 110,000-12,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Restrung using graduated and polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads of roughly spherical form. 187 grams total, 63 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Natural History - Fossil Brittle Star Group
Ordovician Age, circa 450 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising three Ophiuroidea sp. specimens on irregular matrices. 397 grams total, 68-78 mm
From El Kaid Errami, Tafilalt, Morocco. From an old German collection. -
Natural History - Complete Ice Age Juvenile Mammoth Tusk
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,340
A right-side 'fossil' tusk of the extinct Mammuthus Primigenius; ivory yellow-brown in colour and finely preserved with the typically marked curvature of this species; with custom-made display stand. 2.29 kg total, 54 cm wide including stand
From the Siberian Tundra. From the private collection of Mr J S, Northamptonshire, UK. Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman.
Mammoths were animals of the Ice Age; they co-existed with and were hunted by early man; Siberia is famed for discoveries of frozen mammoth carcasses (see 'Dima' and 'Lyuba' for examples) and for the hut circles where mammoth bones and tusks were used as building materials; tusks have been traded for at least 2,000 years and in modern times, Siberian natives still hunt for them and use the fossil ivory as raw material.
