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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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Natural History - Fossil Hybodus Shark Fin Spine Group
Lower Cretaceous Period, circa 95 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising three specimens. 57 grams total, 7.9-12.7 cm
From the Kem Kem Basin, Eastern Morocco, North Africa. Collected between 1930 and 1960. From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill. -
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Leg Bone Section
Cretaceous Period, 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
From the front leg of Deltadromeus agilis. 405 grams, 18 cm
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. -
Natural History - Sikhote-Alin Meteorite
Fell February 12, 1947 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Classified as an iron IIAB meteorite. 32.6 grams, 37 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
