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LOT 2694
Natural History - Fossil Coral Heart
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 5/8 in. (130 grams, 67 mm).
A palm stone formed from a colony of fossilised coral. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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