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LOT 0445
Natural History - Fossil Giganteus Crab
NEOGENE PERIOD, CIRCA 15-12 MILLION YEARS B.P.
6 3/4 in. (926 grams, 17 cm).
A well preserved and prepared complete Tumidocarcinus giganteus from a classic fossil location; witha handwritten provenance label to verso. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound by Mike Kemper, Waipare, Mount Cass, New Zealand, February 2014.
From the private collection of a Lancashire gentleman.
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Natural History - Natural Australian Opal Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Displaying a good play of colour on milky-white background, tag with handwritten information: 'JOAN'S OPAL / PURCHASED / SYDNEY 1983 / IT IS A V. GOOD / ANDDAMOOKA CRYSTAL'. 0.75 grams, 11.99 mm
Purchased Sydney, Australia, in 1983. From a Norfolk, UK, collection. Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman. Accompanied by a pouch and information tag. -
Natural History - Mosasaur Jaw Section
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
From the lower jaw, displaying two teeth from Prognathodon sp.; repaired. 89 grams, 87 mm
From the phosphate mine region, Khouribga, Morocco, North Africa. Acquired 1950s-1960s. From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.
The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile dinosaur with a snake-like body, long snout and paddle-like limbs. Found worldwide, they competed with other well-known sea predators of the Late Cretaceous, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, for food, existing primarily on a diet of ammonoids, cuttlefish and fish. -
Natural History - Boxed Fossil Perisphinctes Ammonite Group
Jurassic Period, circa 199-145 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising two large and one smaller Perisphinctids indogermanus ammonite. 369 grams total, 55-78 mm
From Madagascar. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
