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LOT 2268
Natural History - Extinct Fossil Shark and Other Tooth Collection
CRETACEOUS-EOCENE PERIOD, 70-50 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1/4 - 1 1/8 in. (940 grams total, 9-30 mm).
Comprising specimens of different sizes, including examples retaining some or most of the root, enamel and/or serration. [Approximately 1600, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
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LOT 2268
Natural History - Extinct Fossil Shark and Other Tooth Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
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Natural History - Insect in Baltic Amber
Oligocene Age, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Polished to an oval shape, containing an insect. 2.4 grams, 26 mm
Collected 1930-1960. From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill. -
Natural History - Fossil Gibba Trilobite
Upper Devonian Period, circa 385-359 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Crotalocephalina gibba trilobite on a matrix. 148 grams, 67 mm
From the Atlas Mountains, Hamar Laghdad Formation, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco. From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection. -
Natural History - Chinese Nantan Meteorite
Fell 1516 A.D., found 1958 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
An amorphous nickel iron Nantan meteorite (1AB), cleaned. 3.58 grams, 22 mm
Found Nantan, Nandan County, Guangzi Region, China. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
The Nantan meteorite fell in 1516, as recorded in ancient Chinese texts; the fall exploded during descent which resulted in a shower of many individual iron meteorites over an area some 28km x 8km in Nantan County, Guangxi, China. Classified as an iron meteorite; 111CD Course Octohedrite, the composition is approximately 92% iron, 6% nickel and contains more than ten other minerals including kamacite, taenite, dominate, plessite, schreibersite, triolite, graphite and others. In 2000, pieces of the Nantan meteorite were incorporated into an art installation for The Bull Ring Shopping Centre in Birmingham, England. Today, a plaque commemorates the occasion.
