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LOT 2217
Natural History - Fossil Fly and Insect Group
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 58 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 1/2 - 3 1/4 in. (82 grams total, 37- 82 mm).
Comprising three matrices with fossil flies together with a fossil crane fly. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Wyoming (Green River Formation), Uintah County, Utah, USA.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
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Natural History - Fossil Mosasaur Tooth Group
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Comprising two large specimens with good enamel; one repaired. 104 grams total, 52-69 mm
From in the phosphate mine region, Khouribga, Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile dinosaur with a snake-like body, long snout and paddle-like limbs. Found worldwide, they competed with other well-known sea predators of the Late Cretaceous, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, for food, existing primarily on a diet of ammonoids, cuttlefish and fish. -
Natural History - Fossil Metcanthina Trilobite
Upper Devonian Period, circa 419-358 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
A Metacanthina barrandei trilobite showing shell structure, eyes and side antenna; on a matrix. 128 grams, 68 mm
From Hamar Laghdad Formation, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco, North Africa. From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection. -
Natural History - Mixed Mineral Specimen Collection [20]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising: popcorn quartz, amethyst, agate, smoky quartz, brown obsidian, citrine, pyrite, 'desert rose', and others. 823 grams total, 23-81 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).