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LOT 2559
Natural History - Fossil Orthoceras Column
DEVONIAN PERIOD, 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
8 5/8 in. (1.63 kg, 22 cm).
A freestanding display of bullet-shaped Orthoceras sp. specimens. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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