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LOT 2471
Natural History - Fossil Seed Fern Pair
MIDDLE PENNSYLVANIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 300 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 1/4 - 2 3/8 in. (118 grams total, 58-60 mm).
Comprising two pairs of Pecopteris sp. [4, No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Mazon Creek Fossil Beds, Braidwood, Illinois, USA.
Collected 1930-1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
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