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LOT 2031
Natural History - Fossil Ammonite Cluster
LOWER JURASSIC PERIOD, TOARCIAN STAGE, CIRCA 180 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 5/8 in. (374 grams, 11.8 cm).
Comprising a number of variously sized ammonites on a partly polished matrix, possibly a type of dactylioceratid. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Whitby, UK.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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