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LOT 2444
Natural History - Fossil Phacops Trilobite
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 380 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 in. (164 grams, 75 mm).
With surface texture to the head and spine; on a limestone matrix. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Hamar L'Aghdad, Djebel Issoumour area, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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