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LOT 2395
Natural History - Fossil Seed Fern Group
MIDDLE PENNSYLVANIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 300 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 1/2 - 3 1/2 in. (180 grams total, 66-88 mm).
Comprising three Pecopteris sp. specimens. [3, No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Mazon Creek Fossil Beds, Braidwood, Illinois, U.S.A.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
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