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LOT 2412
Natural History - Fossil Pine Cone
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 55-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 5/8 in. (13.7 grams, 40 mm).
An agatized Dicotaledon fruit specimen. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Western Sahara Desert, Morocco.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.
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