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LOT 2346
Natural History - Fossil Ginkgo Leaf on Matrix
PALAEOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 66-56 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 in. (134 grams, 76 mm).
A fossil Ginkgo sp. leaf in an amorphous matrix. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From North Dakota, U.S.A.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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