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LOT 2503
Natural History - Fossil Nautilus Group
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 120 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 1/2 - 1 3/4 in. (140 grams total, 40-46 mm).
Comprising three polished Cymatoceras sakalavus specimens. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the jungles of Mahajanga on the North West coast of Madagascar.
From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.
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Natural History - Cut Fossil Ammonite Halves
Middle Cretaceous Period, 150 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Polished to reveal the distinctive structure of the Cleoniceras sp. chambers, some iridescence. 160 grams total, 86 mm each
From Madagascar. Collected between 1930 and 1960. From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill. -
Natural History - Insects in Copal
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Displaying several insects together with other inclusions. 19 grams, 15.5 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Section
Cretaceous Period, 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
From the front leg of Deltadromeus agilis on a matrix; repaired. 1.1 kg, 22.5 cm long
From the Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa. From an old German paleontological collection.
Deltadromeus had extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur was an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus.
