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LOT 2789
Natural History - Fossil Gibbus Trilobite
UPPER DEVONIAN PERIOD, 385-359 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 7/8 in. (175 grams, 72 mm).
Cheirurus (Crotalocephalina) trilobite Crotalocephalus gibbus fossil on a matrix. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Hamar Laghdad Formation, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco, North Africa.
From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.
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