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LOT 2510
Natural History - Fossil Pine Cone
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 55-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 3/4 in. (15.5 grams, 44 mm).
A rare unidentified agatized Dicotaledon fruit specimen. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Western Sahara Desert, Morocco, North Africa.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.
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