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LOT 2221
Natural History - Fossil Whitby Dac Ammonite Cluster
LOWER JURASSIC PERIOD, TOARCIAN STAGE, CIRCA 180 MILLION YEARS B.P.
5 1/8 in. (729 grams, 15 cm).
A cut matrix with numerous overlapping Cymbites and Arnioceras sp. specimens. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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