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LOT 2108
Natural History - Fossil Cambropallas Trilobite
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
8 1/2 in. (1.6 kg, 21.5 cm).
Cambropallas telesto on a light brown matrix. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
With brown, white, orange, grey and blue banding; one with enhanced colour. 810 grams total, 8.5-14.7 cm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Complete Fossil Ammonite
Jurassic Period, 199-145 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Perisphinctes sp. with much of the original shell material remaining, in old white card tray with old label reading: 'AMMONITE Perisphinctes sp., Mid Jurassic Age (approx. 170 million years old), Madagascar'. 120 grams, 76 mm
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Natural History - Fossil Smilodon Tooth
Pleistocene Period, circa 2.5 million years–10,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
The saber tooth from Smilodon fatalis, commonly known as a saber-toothed tiger. 588 grams, 20 cm
From the La Brea Tar Pits, USA. Originally acquired from a USA dealer. From an old Northern Ireland collection.
Smilodon is a genus of the extinct machairodont subfamily of the felids. It is one of the best known saber-toothed predators and one of the most famous prehistoric mammals. Although commonly known as the saber-toothed tiger, it was not closely related to the tiger or other modern cats.