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LOT 1773
Natural History - Fossil Elrathia Kingii Trilobite
MIDDLE CAMBRIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 500 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 1/4 in. (142 grams, 83 mm).
An Elrathia kingii fossilised trilobite. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Wheeler Shale Formation, Millard County, Utah, U.S.A.
From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.
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