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LOT 2163
Natural History - Fossil Speculator Trilobite
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 1/8 in. (160 grams, 79 mm).
Phacops speculator specimen on a matrix, clearly showing the external structures. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Hamar Laghdad Formation, Atlas Mountains, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco, North Africa.
From an old Oxfordshire fossil and mineral collection.
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