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LOT 1997
Natural History - Fossil Fly Group
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 50 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 3/4 - 3 1/4 in. (216 grams total, 73-82 mm).
A group of three fossil flies in matrix. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Green River Formation, South Western Wyoming, U.S.A.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R. Gledhill.
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