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LOT 1761
Natural History - Fossil Shark Vertebra Group
UPPER PALAEOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 56 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 1/2 - 3 in. (302 grams total, 63-77 mm).
Comprising two Otodus obliquus, Agassiz 1843 (mackerel shark) vertebrae. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Ouled Abdoun Basin Formation (Phosphate beds), Oued Zem, Morocco.
From an old Oxfordshire fossil and mineral collection.
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