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LOT 2440
Natural History - Fossil Gibba Trilobite
UPPER DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 385-359 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 5/8 in. (148 grams, 67 mm).
Crotalocephalina gibba trilobite on a matrix. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Atlas Mountains, Hamar Laghdad Formation, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco.
From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.
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