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LOT 2227
Natural History - Fossil Morroccanites Trilobite
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 380 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 3/4 in. (152 grams, 69 mm).
A Morocconites malladoides specimen displaying the characteristic upcurved, frontal medial spine. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Footnotes
Morocconites malladoides is thought to have been a epifaunal detritivore.
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