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LOT 2465
Natural History - Fossil Megalomanicus Trilobites
UPPER DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 385-359 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 1/4 in. (300 grams, 83 mm).
Comprising two Drotops megalomanicus trilobites on a matrix. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Atlas Mountains, Hamar Laghdad Formation, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco.
From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.
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