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LOT 1988
Natural History - Fossil Starfish and Edrioasteroids
ORDOVICIAN PERIOD, 485-444 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 3/4 in. (283 grams, 96 mm).
A matrix containing a fossil starfish, petraster and edrioasteroids Spinadiscus lefebvrei. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Tioririne Formation, El Kaid Rami, Morocco, North Africa.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, paleontological collection.
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