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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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