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LOT 2374
Natural History - Juvenile Megalodon Giant Shark Fossil Tooth
MIOCENE-PLIOCENE PERIOD, 23-3.5 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 1/4 in. (29.8 grams, 57 mm).
Displaying serrations and polished enamel, from the Carcharocles megalodon shark. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Florida, U.S.A.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
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LOT 2374
Natural History - Juvenile Megalodon Giant Shark Fossil Tooth
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
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Natural History - Amber with Insect Inclusions
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Including a fly and with a polished body. 3.02 grams, 22 mm
Ex private UK collection formed in the 1980s. -
Natural History - Fossil Seed Fern Group
Middle Pennsylvanian Period, 300 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising three Pecopteris sp. specimens. 260 grams total, 71-82 mm
From the Mazon Creek Fossil Beds, Braidwood, Illinois, U.S.A. Collected between 1930 and 1960. From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill. -
Natural History - Fossil Otodus Shark Tooth
Eocene Period, 56-33 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £21
With good enamel; on a sandstone matrix. 455 grams, 10.9 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
