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LOT 2541
Natural History - Fossil Mesacristata Trilobite
DEVONIAN PERIOD, 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 in. (130 grams, 78 mm).
Hollardops mesacristata on a matrix. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Atlas Mountains, Hamar Laghdad Formation, Prgain, Alnif, Morocco, North Africa.
From an old Oxford, UK, fossil and mineral collection.
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