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LOT 1970
Natural History - Fossil Wood Slice
MIOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 20 MILLION YEARS B.P.
8 1/2 in. (739 grams, 21.5 cm).
A polished fossil tropical hardwood slice section displaying natural bark and with one polished end to reveal the inner wood detail. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Genteng Formation, Indonesia.
From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.
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