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LOT 2516
Natural History - Fossil Pine Cone
EOCENE PERIOD, 55-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 1/2 in. (13.8 grams, 40 mm).
An agatized Dicotaledon fruit specimen. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Western Sahara Desert, Morocco, North Africa.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, paleontological collection.
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