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LOT 2396
Natural History - Fossil Woolly Rhinoceros Vertebra
DEVENSIAN PERIOD, 110,000-12,000 YEARS B.P.
5 in. (257 grams, 12.8 cm).
From the Coelodonta antiquitatis. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Brown Bank, Lowestoft, UK.
From an old Norwich collection collected before 1960.
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