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LOT 2241
Natural History - Fossil Seed Fern Plate
CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD, CIRCA 305 MILLION YEARS B.P.
5 3/4 in. (128 grams, 14.7 cm).
Alethopteris and Neruopteris sp. fern specimens on an irregular matrix. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom St. Clair, Pennsylvania, USA.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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Natural History - Boxed Mineral Specimen Group [6]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising: galena from Tri-State, USA; calcite from Mexico; fluorite from Illinois, USA; fluorite with hematite from Tri-State, USA; pyrite from Huanaco, Peru. 349 grams total, 32-58 mm
From U.S.A, Mexico, and Peru. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Fossil Brittle Star Group
Middle Ordovician Period, circa 450 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Three matrices with Ophiuroidea sp. specimens. 270 grams total, 79-85 mm
From El Kaid Errami, Tafilalt, Morocco, North Africa. From an old German collection. -
Natural History - Fossil Deltadromeus Theropod Dinosaur Vertebra
Cretaceous Period, circa 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
A vertebra with partial neural arch from the dinosaur Deltadromeus agilis. 364 grams, 12.2 cm
From the Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa. From an old German paleontological collection.
Deltadromeus meaning 'delta runner' has extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur is an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus.
