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LOT 2319
Natural History - Fossil Fly Group
EOCENE PERIOD, 50 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 - 2 5/8 in. (145 grams total, 51-66 mm).
Comprising three specimens on a matrix. [3, 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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