Natural History - Fossil Sporadoceras Goniatite Group

DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 385-359 MILLION YEARS B.P.

3 1/4 - 3 1/2 in. (433 grams total, 83-88 mm).

Comprising two freestanding Sporadoceras sp., polished through the shell to reveal the calcite preserved inside and show the dividing gas chambers known as suture patterns where the chambers meet the surface giving a zig-zag pattern. [2, No Reserve]

Provenance

From the Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.

CONDITION

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LOT 2179