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LOT 2817
Natural History - Fossil Scutellum Trilobite
UPPER DEVONIAN PERIOD, 385-359 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 in. (222 grams, 77 mm).
A Scutellum sp. trilobite from the family Styginidae on a matrix. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Atlas Mountains, Hamar Laghdad Formation, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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