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LOT 1930
Natural History - Fossil Double Perisphinctes Ammonite
JURASSIC PERIOD, CIRCA 199-145 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 in. (154 grams, 75 mm).
Comprising a large and a small Perisphinctids indogermanus ammonites fused together. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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