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LOT 2388
Natural History - Fossil Fly Group
EOCENE PERIOD, 50 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 1/4 -2 3/8 in. (150 grams total, 58-60 mm).
Comprising three specimens on a matrix. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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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Natural History - Argochampsa Fossil Crocodile Skull
Paleocene Period, 66-56 million years B.P.Estimate: £600 - 800 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £333
The upper part of Argochampsa krebsi on a sandy matrix wrapped in a plaster field jacket. 4.9 kg, 45 cm
Fine condition.
From Morocco. From an East Anglian, UK, collection.
Argochampsa or 'Argo crocodile' is an extinct genus of eusuchian crocodylomorph, usually regarded as a gavialoid crocodilian, related to modern gharials. It lived in the Paleocene Period in Morocco. Described by Hua and Jouve in 2004, the type species is A. krebsi. Argochampsa and had a long narrow snout, and apparently marine in its behaviour. -
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Section
Cretaceous Period, 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
From the front leg of Deltadromeus agilis on a matrix; repaired. 1.1 kg, 22.5 cm long
From the Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa. From an old German paleontological collection.
Deltadromeus had extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur was an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus. -
Natural History - Fossil Mosasaur and Enchodus Tooth Display
Cretaceous Period, 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Both specimens set in a rounded sandstone matrix. 535 grams, 14.3 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
