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LOT 2266
Natural History - Fossil Otodus Shark Tooth Display
EOCENE PERIOD, 56-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3/4 - 1 in. (45 grams total, 19-27 mm).
Comprising three Otodus obliquus teeth in a display frame. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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Natural History - Chalcopyrite 'Peacock Ore' Mineral Specimen Group [120]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising a large quantity of specimens showing a beautiful play of colour. 1 kg total, 14-29 mm
From Mexico. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Fossil Speculator Trilobite
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Phacops speculator specimen on a matrix, clearly showing the external structures. 160 grams, 79 mm
From the Hamar Laghdad Formation, Atlas Mountains, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco, North Africa. From an old Oxfordshire fossil and mineral collection. -
Natural History - Fossil Claudiosaurus Skeleton
Late Permian-early Triassic Period, circa 252-250 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
On a rounded matrix. 8.85 kg, 32.5 cm
From Madagascar. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Claudiosaurus is an extinct genus of diapsid reptiles from the Late Permian Sakamena Formation of the Morondava Basin, Madagascar. It is theorised that this was a semi-aquatic, lizard-like dinosaur.