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LOT 2066
Natural History - Fossil Pine Cone
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 55-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 in. (21.4 grams, 50 mm).
Agatized Dicotaledon fruit specimen; supplied in a carboard specimen tray. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Western Sahara Desert, Morocco.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.
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