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LOT 2002
Natural History - Fossil Leaf Group
OLIGOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 34-23 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 3/8 - 3 in. (15 grams total, 59-77 mm).
A group of three fossil leaves in matrix. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Beaverhead County, Montana, U.S.A.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
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